Cane : authoritative text

Toomer, Jean 1894-1967 (Author).

Summary: First published in 1923, Jean Toomer's Cane is an innovative literary work part drama, part poetry, part fiction 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 published with a new introduction by Rudolph Byrd of Emory University and Henry Louis Gates Jr. of Harvard University.

Record details

ISBN: 9780871402103 (pbk.)
Physical Description: 245 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
print
Publisher: New York : Liveright, 2011.

Content descriptions

General Note:	"First published as a Liveright paperback 1975; reissued 1993, 2011"--Title page verso. Original copyright 1923 by Boni & Liveright.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	Karintha -- Reapers -- November Cotton flower -- Becky -- Face -- Cotton song -- Carma -- Song of the son -- Georgia Dusk -- Fern -- Nullo -- Evening song -- Esther -- conversion -- Portrait on Georgia -- Blood- burning moon -- Seventh Street -- Rhobert -- Avey -- Beehive -- Storm evening -- Theater -- Her lips are copper wire -- Calling Jesus -- Box seat -- Prayer -- Harvest song -- Bona and Paul -- Kabnis.