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Cane.
Binding: Paperback
Fabric Type: 9780060830878
Fax Number: 1st Printing Thus
Legal Disclaimer: 0060830875
Maximum Color Depth: HarperCollins (paper)
Metal Type: HarperCollins (paper)
Total External Bays Free: 1969-06
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Originally published in 1923, Cane is a literary masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance. The growing interest in African-American literature that began in the 1960's led to the rediscovery of earlier African-American writers, one of whom is Jean Toomer, author of Cane. It is an innovative literary workâpart drama, part poetry, part fiction. "Backgrounds" contains generous excerpts from Jean Toomer's correspondence with fellow writers Sherwood Anderson, Waldo Frank, and Allen Tate, and with his publisher, Horace Liveright.
Darwin T. Turner's "Introduction" (to the 1975 Liveright edition of Cane), reprinted here, presents the historical and literary backgrounds of the work, as well as additional biographical information on Toomer.
"Criticism", both contemporary and recent, on Cane and Toomer is wide-ranging and includes essays by W. E. B. Du Bois, Gorham B. Munson, Robert Bone, Patricia Watkins, Lucinda H. MacKethan, Nellie Y. McKay, and Darwin T. Turner.
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When Ralph Waldo Emerson penned his famous essay The Poet in the middle of the 19th century, there was no real "American Literature." Yes, there was literature written in the United States, by "American" authors, with some semblance of American settings and American themes, but the most popular works of that time were, for all intents and purposes, very much British (booo). The American literary identity was still forming. Everything from poetry to drama (can anyone name the first real example of ... Read More
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How often when someone talks about a book does he or she say, "I felt like I was there," or "It seemed real"? Those are nice compliments, but they are untrue to the act of reading, or writing, much as we might wish that fiction could create a world that we can truly see and feel and hear and taste.
This is the one book that makes me feel that it can in fact be done.
(A comment on a few of the other reviews: How on earth can it be said that this is a difficult book to read? At what point ... Read More
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The book came quickly and was in the promised shape. Will definitely but from this seller in the future.
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This is not a book that is likely to be appreciated by the pabulum fed mass readership of today, because it requires emotional and intellectual engagement, and refuses to give answers, while wishing its readers to take what they need at each reading. It is also still relevant because its form's perpetual renewal transcends its time, even its use of outdated terms. Look at other black fiction from the era and you will see that Cane is still relevant and undated. Even compared to the later, limp, stereotyped ... Read More
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This is the most amazing book. I am so sad that Jean Toomer did not write any other fiction.
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