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Cane: A Novel of the Harlem Renaissance
Hardcover
Classic FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
ISBN13: 9781515440017
Publisher: Wilder Publications
Published: Jan 26 2019
Pages: 118
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A landmark work of the Harlem Renaissance, Cane (1923) is a formally daring fusion of poetry, prose, and drama that transformed twentieth-century American literature.
Jean Toomer's singular masterpiece resists conventional classification. Moving between rural Georgia and the industrial North, Cane presents a sequence of lyrical sketches, short stories, and the concluding dramatic piece Kabnis, forming a unified meditation on race, memory, migration, and spiritual estrangement. The early sections evoke the haunting beauty and suppressed violence of Southern Black life; the Northern passages confront alienation and fractured identity amid urban modernity. Throughout, Toomer's language is spare, rhythmic, and symbolically charged, blending modernist experimentation with the cadences of oral tradition.
Published at the height of the Harlem Renaissance, Cane remains one of the defining works of that movement-at once pastoral and modern, intimate and mythic. Its influence extends across American letters, shaping later writers through its structural innovation and emotional intensity. This Wilder Publications edition presents the complete, unabridged 1923 text, restored for contemporary readers.
I love it passionately; could not possibly exist without it. - Alice Walker
This book should be on all readers' and writers' desks and in their minds. - Maya Angelou
[Toomer avoided] the pitfalls of propaganda and moralizing on the one hand and the snares of a false and hollow race pride on the other hand. - Montgomery Gregory
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