Cane
Type
Label
Cane
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Cane
Medium
electronic resource
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Series statement
Heritage Series, v. 9
Summary
First published in 1923, Jean Toomer's Cane is an innovative literary work powerfully evoking black life in the South. Rich in imagery, Toomer's impressionistic, sometimes surrealistic sketches of Southern rural and urban life are permeated by visions of smoke, sugarcane, dusk, and fire; the northern world is pictured as a harsher reality of asphalt streets. This iconic work of American literature is a classic of both American modernism and the Harlem Renaissance, and challenges the idea of race as a scientific or biological concept
Target audience
adult
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Creator
Subject
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