Cane

An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds, Criticism

Author: Jean Toomer
ISBN: 9780393956009

"Backgrounds" contains generous excerpts from Jean Toomer'scorrespondence with fellow writers Sherwood Anderson, Waldo Frank, andAllen Tate, and with his publisher, Horace Liveright.Darwin T. Turner's "Introduction" (to the 1975 Liveright edition ofCane), reprinted here, presents the historical and literary backgroundsof the work, as well as additional biographical information on Toomer."Criticism", both contemporary and recent, on Cane and Toomer iswide-ranging and includes essays by W. E. B. Du Bois, Gorham B. Munson,Robert Bone, Patricia Watkins, Lucinda H. MacKethan, Nellie Y. McKay,and Darwin T. Turner.

Publisher: Norton
Publish Date: 1988

Subjects: Fiction / Classics, Fiction / Short Stories (single author)

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