Description for Cane
Paperback. A masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance and a canonical work in both the American and the African American literary traditions, Cane is now available in a revised and expanded Norton Critical Edition. Editor(s): Byrd, Rudolph P.; Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; FC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 213 x 130 x 29. Weight in Grams: 536.
Originally published in 1923, Jean Toomer's Cane remains an innovative literary work-part drama, party poetry, part fiction. This revised Norton Critical Edition builds upon the First Edition (1988), which was edited by the late Darwin T. Turner, a pioneering scholar in the field of African American studies. The Second Edition begins with the editors' introduction, a major work of scholarship that places Toomer within the context of American Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance. The introduction provides groundbreaking biographical information on Toomer and examines his complex, contradictory racial position as well as his own pioneering views on race. Illustrative materials include ... Read more
Originally published in 1923, Jean Toomer's Cane remains an innovative literary work-part drama, party poetry, part fiction. This revised Norton Critical Edition builds upon the First Edition (1988), which was edited by the late Darwin T. Turner, a pioneering scholar in the field of African American studies. The Second Edition begins with the editors' introduction, a major work of scholarship that places Toomer within the context of American Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance. The introduction provides groundbreaking biographical information on Toomer and examines his complex, contradictory racial position as well as his own pioneering views on race. Illustrative materials include ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Series
Norton Critical Editions
Condition
New
Weight
544 g
Number of Pages
560
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393931686
SKU
V9780393931686
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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About Jean Toomer
Jean Toomer (1894-1967) 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 ... Read more
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