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Cane
Title
Cane / Jean Toomer ; with an introduction by Darwin T. Turner (University of Iowa).
ISBN
087140611X
9780871406118
0871401045
9780871401045
9780871401519
0871401517
Publication
New York : Liveright, [1975]
Copyright Notice Date
©1951
Physical Description
xxv, 116 pages ; 20 cm
Local Notes
BEIN 2018 4768: Paperbound. Autograph: Samuel R. Delany. Manuscript notes of Samuel R. Delany. From the library of Samuel R. Delany.
Notes
A novel.
Summary
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.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 25, 2013
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Fiction.
Novels.
Novels.
Fiction.
Annotations (Provenance) - 20th century.
Also listed under
Samuel R. Delany Library (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library). Working Library.
United States New York (State) New York.
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