Considered to be a masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance, a brief period during the 1920s, this book consists of sketches, poems and stories of rural and urban black African life that evoke images of smoke, sugar-cane, dusk and flame in the southern landscape, while the northern world is pictured as a harsher reality of asphalt streets.
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By far the most impressive product of the Negro Renaissance, Cane ranks with Richard Wright's Native Son and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man as a measure of the Negro novelist's highest achievement. Jean Toomer belongs to that first rank of writers who use words almost as a plastic medium, shaping new meanings from an original and highly personal style. --Robert A. Bone, The Negro Novel in America
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Her skin is like dusk on the eastern horizon, O cant you see it, O cant you see it, Her skin is like dusk on the eastern horizon . . . When the sun goes down. Read the first page
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Her skin is like dusk on the eastern horizon, O cant you see it, O cant you see it, Her skin is like dusk on the eastern horizon . . . When the sun goes down. Read the first page
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Alice Walker once said of Cane that she "could not possibly exist without it." I feel the same way. This is the most glorious, complex, heartwrenchingly beautiful collection of poems and prose that I have ever encountered. Toomer was a lyrical, insightful writer. He was someone who understood and could convey pain. Whatever racial classification people may settle upon, it is clear that Toomer was influenced by the black experience in the U.S. -- Cane reads like jazz sometimes, like blues at other times, and every once in awhile like gospel; in any case it is musical, rhythmic, and it gets to your soul.
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This is perhaps one of my favorite works of literature I've ever read. This piece of literature uses poetry and short stories to portray the vast experiences of Afican-Americans in America. This novel (of sorts) opens your eyes and does so subtly and beautifully through various characters and the experiences they go through or fight against. Although written over fify years ago, Toomer's work relates well to the problems/concerns of race in America today. I feel this should be a required work in studying Modern American Literature and the African-American Experience. If there is a firm "canon" ever established, this should be included.
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Toomer considered race arbitrary. Above all, he considered himself an American. Read this book; or, if nothing else, at least read "Blood-Burning Moon" to experience some extremely intense prose.
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masterpiece
Just masterpiece . On level of "Mullato" by Langston Hughes and other Harlem Renaissance writers. (Countee Cullen, McKay). Read more
Published 2 months ago by Jack
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hard reading, but rewarding
This is a sequence of short poems and short prose texts. The do not make for easy reading - the jacket of the Library of America edition that collects this along with other works... Read more
Published 15 months ago by William Jordan
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the question of toomers race
It is irrelevant whether you choose to refer to Jean as black or as a MIXED CAUCASIAN. That is as riduculous and naive a moniker as you claim black to be. Read more
Published on 4 April 1999
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Jean Toomer was not "black" but mixed-caucasian
Readers who call Jean Toomer "black" or "African American" are totally in error. Read more
Published on 6 July 1998
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Toomer was not "black" but mixed-white
Readers who call Jean Toomer "black" or "African American" are totally in error. Read more
Published on 6 July 1998
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