Description
Book SynopsisA 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.
Table of ContentsIntroduction
* Rudolph P. Byrd and Henry Louis Gates Jr.: "Song of the Son": The Emergence and Passing of Jean Toomer
Jean Toomer's Racial Self-Identification: A Note on the Supporting Materials
*Draft Registration, June 5, 1917
*1930 Census
*Detail of 1930 Census
*1931 Marriage Certificate
*Draft Registration, April 24, 1942
The Text of Cane
Waldo Frank * Foreword to the 1923 Edition of Cane
Map of Sparta, Georgia
Backgrounds and Sources
Background Texts
Jean Toomer * The Cane Years
* Why I Entered the Gurdjieff Work
Correspondence
To Alain Locke, November 11, 1919
To Georgia Douglas Johnson, December 1919
To Georgia Douglas Johnson, January 7, 1920
To Georgia Douglas Johnson, February 20, 1920
To Alain Locke, December 24, 1920
To Alain Locke, January 26, 1921
To Alain Locke, November 8, 1921
To Alain Locke, November 1921
To Waldo Frank, March 24, 1922
Waldo Frank to Jean Toomer, April 25, 1922
To Waldo Frank, April 26, 1922
To Waldo Frank, August 21, 1922
To John McClure, July 22, 1922
To Claude McKay, July 23, 1922
To the Editors of The Liberator, August 19, 1922
To Alain Locke, October 1, 1922
To Gorham B. Munson, October 31, 1922
To Sherwood Anderson, December 18, 1922
To Sherwood Anderson, December 29, 1922
To Waldo Frank, December 1922
To Waldo Frank, December 12, 1922
To Alain Locke, January 2, 1923
To Waldo Frank, early January 1923
To Waldo Frank, early to mid January 1923
To Waldo Frank, early January 1923
To Horace Liveright, January 11, 1923
To Horace Liveright, February 27, 1923
To Horace Liveright, March 9, 1923
To Horace Liveright, September 5, 1923
To Countee Cullen, October 1, 1923
To Georgia O'Keeffe, January 13, 1924
To James Weldon Johnson, July 11, 1930
Criticism
Contemporary Reviews
Montgomery Gregory * A Review of Cane
Robert Littell * A Review of Cane
W. E .B. Du Bois and Alain Locke * The Younger Literary Movement
Gorham B. Munson * The Significance of Jean Toomer
Paul Rosenfeld * Jean Toomer
Critical Interpretations
Sterling A. Brown * Jean Toomer
Langston Hughes * Gurdjieff in Harlem
Robert Bone * [Jean Toomer's Cane]
Darwin T. Turner * The Failure of a Playwright
Arna Bontemps * Introduction to the 1969 Edition of Cane
John M. Reilly * The Search for Black Redemption: Jean Toomer's Cane
Bernard Bell * A Key to the Poems in Cane
Catherine L. Innes * The Unity of Jean Toomer's Cane
Charles T. Davis * Jean Toomer and the South: Region and Race as Elements within a Literary Imagination
Alice Walker * The Divided Life of Jean Toomer
David Bradley * Looking Behind Cane
Charles Scruggs * Textuality and Vision in Jean Toomer's Cane
Gayl Jones * Blues Ballad: Jean Toomer's "Karintha"
George B. Hutchinson * Jean Toomer and the "New Negroes" of Washington
Barbara Foley * Jean Toomer's Washington and the Politics of Class: From "Blue Veins" to Seventh-street Rebels
Megan Abbott * "Dorris Dances . . . John Dreams": Free Indirect Discourse and Female Subjectivity in Cane
Werner Sollors * Jean Toomer's Cane: Modernism and Race in Interwar America
Mark Whalan * Jean Toomer and the Avant-Garde
Gino Michael Pellegrini * Jean Toomer's Cane: "Mixed-Blood" Impossibilities
Jennifer D. Williams * Jean Toomer's Cane and the Erotics of Mourning
Nellie Y. McKay * Jean Toomer, the Artist-An Unfulfilled American Life: An Afterword
Jean Toomer: A Chronology
Selected Bibliography
