Cane

Name: Cane
Author: Jean Toomer
ISBN: 9781787365537

Author: Jean Toomer
Series: African Library
Language: English
Length: 140 pages
ISBN: 9781787365537
Published: 19 January 2023
Imprint: Sovereign

african american
african
black culture
black heritage
discrimination
racism
salvery
equality
inequality
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Cane by Jean Toomer is a seminal work of the Harlem Renaissance, and a highly influential text within the modernist canon. It is comprised of poetry, short stories, and sketches that reflect Toomer's unique vision of African-American life in the early twentieth century. The work encapsulates both the racial oppression as well as the cultural resilience experienced during this period.

Author

Jean Toomer (1894–1967) wrote Cane, a modernist book of Georgia and of mixed form — poems, sketches, stories — that the Harlem Renaissance claimed and that Toomer refused to wear as a label. He taught briefly in the South, then spent a life resisting categories. He wanted to be read as American, not as a box. One title here, and it still feels like a beginning that never quite had a second act to match it.

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