Jean Toomer

Cane

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A lyrical groundbreaking work of the Harlem Renaissance, praised by writers from Langston Hughes to Maya Angelou and Alice Walker (The Washington Post). It would be good to hear their songs . . . reapers of the sweet-stalked cane, cutters of the corn . . . even though their throats cracked, and the strangeness of their voices deafened me. -Harvest Song, Jean Toomer Published in 1923, Jean Toomer's Cane has long been recognized as a pioneering work in African American literature. Employing a modernist, nontraditional structure of thematically linked prose vignettes, poems, and dialogue presented in evocative, often mournful lyrical tones,… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-5040-5839-1
EAN: 9781504058391
Produktnummer: 31923258
Verlag: Open Road Media
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Seitenangabe: 240 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 1'447 KB

Über den Autor

Jean Toomer was an African American poet and novelist commonly associated with the Harlem Renaissance, though he actively resisted the association, and modernism. His reputation stems from his only book, the novel Cane, which Toomer wrote during and after his time as a school principal in Sparta, Georgia.