Cane, Jean Toomer, genre: roman

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Cane, Jean Toomer, genre: roman

Book Title: Cane
Author: Jean Toomer
ISBN: 978-0-393-93168-6
Publisher: Norton Critical Editions
Year published: 2011, 2nd (second) edition
Pages: 417
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Condition: Good

Overview:
A 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.

A Chronology, new to the Second Edition, and an updated Selected Bibliography are also included.

“Backgrounds and Sources” collects a wealth of autobiographical writing that illuminates important phases in Jean Toomer’s intellectual life, including a central chapter from The Wayward and the Seeking and Toomer’s essay on teaching the philosophy of Russian psychologist and mystic Georges I. Gurdjieff, “Why I Entered the Gurdjieff Work.” The volume also reprints thirty of Toomer’s letters from 1919–30, the height of his literary career, to correspondents including Waldo Frank, Sherwood Anderson, Claude McKay, Horace Liveright, Georgia O’Keeffe, and James Weldon Johnson.