Cane
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Cane is a collection of poems, short stories, and what might today be called “flash fiction.” Cane’s tripartite structure suggests a striving after cultural synthesis. The first section gives life to a rural Georgia town. The second section looks to urban culture in Washington, D.C. with an interlude in Chicago. “Kabnis,” the third section, is a short story hybridized with drama that details the vicissitudes of a Northern intellectual alienated from the spiritual underpinnings of American life in the South. Each section intertwines diverse forms and styles with elegant dexterity, exploring the structural integrity of the literary and social categories that define and divide. Cane navigates these classifications, among them race, class, and regionality, through the stories of characters marked as exceptional, whether by virtue of their beauty, their transgression of taboos, or their status as alien among naturalized populations. The artist figure as dramatized in “Kabnis” becomes the ultimate individual, struggling to harness the terrible intensity of his experience without being overtaken and destroyed by it.
This harbinger of the Harlem Renaissance appeared a decade after the regressive Wilson administration had turned the federal government into a segregationist institution. For Toomer, who was himself the child of an influential, mixed-race Washington family, this was above all an occasion to take stock of the complicated, multifarious experience of race in America. — Anna Foca in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
This harbinger of the Harlem Renaissance appeared a decade after the regressive Wilson administration had turned the federal government into a segregationist institution. For Toomer, who was himself the child of an influential, mixed-race Washington family, this was above all an occasion to take stock of the complicated, multifarious experience of race in America. — Anna Foca in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
Thanks so much for your donation R. W. W. Taylor and Vasha!
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Arrived, looking forward to reading it! Thank you Vasha for sending all the books!
Fascinating book, both the forms of the text within and the language. Well worth a read!
This book is now back on the 1001 library bookshelf and can be borrowed by PMing mariabokmal:)If you want to take this book from the library but don't know how to proceed, please refer to the library bookshelf.
Going on my to-read-list.
