Jean Toomer
1) Cane
Author
Language
English
Description
"A powerful work of innovative fiction [made up of] sketches, poems, and stories of black rural and urban life"--P. [4] of cover.
Series
Library of America volume 217
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
©2011
Physical Desc
867 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Five Novels of the 1920s leads off with Jean Toomer's Cane (1923), a unique fusion of fiction, poetry, and drama rooted in Toomer's experiences as a teacher in Georgia. Recognized on publication as a groundbreaking work of literary modernism, Toomer's masterpiece was followed within a few years by a cluster of novels exploring black experience and the dilemmas of black identity in a variety of modes and from different angles. Claude McKay's Home to...
Series
Library of America volume 217, 218
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
©2011
Physical Desc
2 volumes (867, 848 pages) ; 21 cm, in case 22 cm.
Language
English
