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Cane

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W. W. Norton & Company, 1975 - Fiction - 116 pages
A literary masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance, Cane is a powerful work of innovative fiction evoking black life in the South. The sketches, poems, and stories of black rural and urban life that make up Cane are rich in imagery. Visions of smoke, sugarcane, dusk, and flame permeate the Southern landscape: the Northern world is pictured as a harsher reality of asphalt streets. Impressionistic, sometimes surrealistic, the pieces are redolent of nature and Africa, with sensuous appeals to eye and ear.
  

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The is beautiful, noving writing at its very best. - Goodreads
A great Modernist blend of poetry and prose vignettes. - Goodreads
Imagery is complex, even exceptional. - Goodreads
A great work of modernist writing. - Goodreads
There is a lot of spectacular writing in this piece. - Goodreads
And his imagery is beautiful. - Goodreads

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User Review  - Kelly - Goodreads

Wonderful poetry and prose....he weaves language and story together really beautifully. One of my favs! Read full review

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User Review  - Rich Cabalar - Goodreads

This book was pretty horrid. Didn't hate it, but the lack of flow between characters completely turned me off. Read full review

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Contents

Reapers
3
Nullo
18
Seventh Street
39
Her Lips Are Copper Wire
54
Prayer
68
Kabnis
81
Copyright

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Cane (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cane is a 1923 novel by noted Harlem Renaissance figure and author Jean Toomer. The novel is structured as a series of vignettes revolving around the ...
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"Always your heart": the "great design" of Toomer's Cane - Jean ...
"Always your heart": the "great design" of Toomers Cane - Jean Toomer - Critical Essay from MELUS in Arts provided free by Find Articles.
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Cane Summary and Study Guide - Jean Toomer
Cane summary and study guide, with notes, essays, quotes, and pictures.
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The Arion Press Catalogue:"Cane"
Cane is regarded as the highest literary achievement of the Harlem Renaissance and a masterpiece of African-American writing. ...
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New Georgia Encyclopedia: Cane
The resulting composite, Cane, evokes powerful feelings of aesthetic pleasure, despair, confusion, and longing for mystical transcendence. ...
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Cane A classic of the New Negro movement or Harlem Renaissance , Jean Toomer 's Cane (1923) captures the spirit of experimentalism at the core of.
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JSTOR: Jean Toomer's Cane: The Anxiety of the Modern Artist
JEAN TOOMER'S CANE The Anxiety of the Modern Artist by Maria Isabel Caldeira "They can pile up records and labels a mile high, and in the end they will find ...
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Sophisticated Life: The Modern Experience in Jean Toomer’s Cane ...
Jean Toomer’s Cane elucidates the complicated racial plight of early ... close reading of Cane’s structure and thematic content suggests that the ...
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Jean Toomer’s Cane As A Novel: Analisi Del Testo - Tesina di ...
Analisi approfondita del romanzo "Jean Toomer’s Cane" in lingua inglese ... Jean Toomer's Cane was published for the first time in 1923 and it had been ...
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About the author (1975)

Jean Toomer is known today for the one successful book of his career, the novel Cane, published in 1923. Based in part upon his brief experience in the South as a school teacher, Cane was perhaps the first genuinely experimental novel by an African American writer responding to the liberating form of modernist narrative techniques as well as to the deepest and most primal roots of black folk culture in both the South and the North. As such, it reflects in its form the identity conflict that the novel's interwoven stories and poems address. Cane is unique for its blend of poetic language and psychological and moral realism; it established Toomer as one of the leading figures of the Harlem Renaissance. However, Toomer soon was absorbed in his own spiritual education. He eventually became a Quaker and spent most of the last part of his life in seclusion.

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TitleCane
AuthorJean Toomer
Editionillustrated, reprint, reissue
PublisherW. W. Norton & Company, 1975
ISBN0871401517, 9780871401519
Length116 pages
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Fiction / Short Stories (single author)
  
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