Jean Toomer

Cane (New Edition) (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A breakthrough in prose and poetical writing. . . . This book should be on all readers' and writers' desks and in their minds.Maya Angelou

First published in 1923, Jean Toomer's Cane is an innovative literary workpart drama, part poetry, part fictionpowerfully 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 afterword by Rudolph Byrd of Emory University and Henry Louis Gates Jr. of Harvard University, who provide groundbreaking biographical information on Toomer, place his writing within the context of American modernism and the Harlem Renaissance, and examine his shifting claims about his own race and his pioneering critique of race as a scientific or biological concept.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Liveright
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780871403124
• Artikelnr.: 59588939

Autorenporträt

Jean Toomer (18941967) was born in Washington, D.C., the son of educated blacks of Creole stock. Literature was his first love and he regularly contributed avant garde poetry and short stories to such magazines as Dial, Broom, Secession, Double Dealer, and Little Review. After a literary apprenticeship in New York, Toomer taught school in rural Georgia. His experiences there led to the writing of Cane.