{"product_id":"cane-9780393931686","title":"Cane","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance and a canonical work in both the American and the African American literary traditions, \u003cem\u003eCane\u003c\/em\u003e is now available in a revised and expanded Norton Critical Edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e* Rudolph P. Byrd and Henry Louis Gates Jr.: \"Song of the Son\": The Emergence and Passing of Jean Toomer\u003cbr\u003eJean Toomer's Racial Self-Identification: A Note on the Supporting Materials\u003cbr\u003e*Draft Registration, June 5, 1917\u003cbr\u003e*1930 Census \u003cbr\u003e*Detail of 1930 Census\u003cbr\u003e*1931 Marriage Certificate\u003cbr\u003e*Draft Registration, April 24, 1942  \u003cp\u003e The Text of Cane\u003cbr\u003eWaldo Frank * Foreword to the 1923 Edition of Cane\u003cbr\u003eMap of Sparta, Georgia\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e Backgrounds and Sources\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e Background Texts\u003cbr\u003eJean Toomer * The Cane Years\u003cbr\u003e* Why I Entered the Gurdjieff Work \u003cbr\u003eCorrespondence \u003cbr\u003eTo Alain Locke, November 11, 1919 \u003cbr\u003eTo Georgia Douglas Johnson, December 1919 \u003cbr\u003eTo Georgia Douglas Johnson, January 7, 1920 \u003cbr\u003eTo Georgia Douglas Johnson, February 20, 1920 \u003cbr\u003eTo Alain Locke, December 24, 1920 \u003cbr\u003eTo Alain Locke, January 26, 1921 \u003cbr\u003eTo Alain Locke, November 8, 1921 \u003cbr\u003eTo Alain Locke, November 1921 \u003cbr\u003eTo Waldo Frank, March 24, 1922 \u003cbr\u003eWaldo Frank to Jean Toomer, April 25, 1922 \u003cbr\u003eTo Waldo Frank, April 26, 1922 \u003cbr\u003eTo Waldo Frank, August 21, 1922 \u003cbr\u003eTo John McClure, July 22, 1922 \u003cbr\u003eTo Claude McKay, July 23, 1922 \u003cbr\u003eTo the Editors of The Liberator, August 19, 1922 \u003cbr\u003eTo Alain Locke, October 1, 1922 \u003cbr\u003eTo Gorham B. Munson, October 31, 1922\u003cbr\u003eTo Sherwood Anderson, December 18, 1922 \u003cbr\u003eTo Sherwood Anderson, December 29, 1922 \u003cbr\u003eTo Waldo Frank, December 1922 \u003cbr\u003eTo Waldo Frank, December 12, 1922 \u003cbr\u003eTo Alain Locke, January 2, 1923 \u003cbr\u003eTo Waldo Frank, early January 1923\u003cbr\u003eTo Waldo Frank, early to mid January 1923\u003cbr\u003eTo Waldo Frank, early January 1923\u003cbr\u003eTo Horace Liveright, January 11, 1923 \u003cbr\u003eTo Horace Liveright, February 27, 1923 \u003cbr\u003eTo Horace Liveright, March 9, 1923 \u003cbr\u003eTo Horace Liveright, September 5, 1923 \u003cbr\u003eTo Countee Cullen, October 1, 1923 \u003cbr\u003eTo Georgia O'Keeffe, January 13, 1924 \u003cbr\u003eTo James Weldon Johnson, July 11, 1930\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e Criticism\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e Contemporary Reviews\u003cbr\u003eMontgomery Gregory * A Review of Cane\u003cbr\u003eRobert Littell * A Review of Cane\u003cbr\u003eW. E .B. Du Bois and Alain Locke * The Younger Literary Movement\u003cbr\u003eGorham B. Munson * The Significance of Jean Toomer\u003cbr\u003ePaul Rosenfeld * Jean Toomer\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e Critical Interpretations \u003cbr\u003eSterling A. Brown * Jean Toomer\u003cbr\u003eLangston Hughes * Gurdjieff in Harlem \u003cbr\u003eRobert Bone * [Jean Toomer's Cane]\u003cbr\u003eDarwin T. Turner * The Failure of a Playwright\u003cbr\u003eArna Bontemps * Introduction to the 1969 Edition of Cane \u003cbr\u003eJohn M. Reilly * The Search for Black Redemption: Jean Toomer's Cane\u003cbr\u003eBernard Bell * A Key to the Poems in Cane\u003cbr\u003eCatherine L. Innes * The Unity of Jean Toomer's Cane\u003cbr\u003eCharles T. Davis * Jean Toomer and the South: Region and Race as Elements within a Literary Imagination \u003cbr\u003eAlice Walker * The Divided Life of Jean Toomer\u003cbr\u003eDavid Bradley * Looking Behind Cane\u003cbr\u003eCharles Scruggs * Textuality and Vision in Jean Toomer's Cane\u003cbr\u003eGayl Jones * Blues Ballad: Jean Toomer's \"Karintha\" \u003cbr\u003eGeorge B. Hutchinson * Jean Toomer and the \"New Negroes\" of Washington\u003cbr\u003eBarbara Foley * Jean Toomer's Washington and the Politics of Class: From \"Blue Veins\" to Seventh-street Rebels \u003cbr\u003eMegan Abbott * \"Dorris Dances . . . John Dreams\": Free Indirect Discourse and Female Subjectivity in Cane\u003cbr\u003eWerner Sollors * Jean Toomer's Cane: Modernism and Race in Interwar America\u003cbr\u003eMark Whalan * Jean Toomer and the Avant-Garde \u003cbr\u003eGino Michael Pellegrini * Jean Toomer's Cane: \"Mixed-Blood\" Impossibilities \u003cbr\u003eJennifer D. Williams * Jean Toomer's Cane and the Erotics of Mourning \u003cbr\u003eNellie Y. McKay * Jean Toomer, the Artist-An Unfulfilled American Life: An Afterword\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e Jean Toomer: A Chronology\u003cbr\u003eSelected Bibliography\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WW Norton \u0026 Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48733733945687,"sku":"9780393931686","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/cane-9780393931686","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}