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Literature & FictionJean Toomer (1894-1967) was a modernist writer, a member of the Harlem Renaissance, and briefly part of the literary and artistic community that grew up around Mabel Dodge Luhan in Taos, New Mexico. This book, a critical... See More
Black & African American
"A breakthrough in prose and poetical writing... This book should be on all readers' and writers' desks and in their minds." -- Maya Angelou First published in 1923, Jean Toomer's Cane is an innovative literary work -- part... See More
Literature & Fiction
Black & African American
Black & African American
The Harlem Renaissance writer's innovative and groundbreaking novel depicting African American life in the South and North, with a foreword by National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree Zinzi Clemmons Jean Toomer's Cane is... See More
"Cane... exerted a powerful influence over the Harlem Renaissance" -- The New York Times Cane is a collection of short stories, poems, and dramas, written by Harlem Renaissance author Jean Toomer in 1923. The stories focus... See More
Literary Fiction
Classics
Jean Toomer's revolutionary masterpiece Cane (1923) ushered in the era we now know as the Harlem Renaissance, and has come to be considered one of the classic works of American literary modernism. A boldly experimental... See More
Black & African American
Religion & Spirituality
This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. See More
Literature & Fiction
African-American Classics presents great stories and poems from America''s earliest Black writers, illustrated by contemporary African-American artists. Featured are "Two Americans" by Florence Lewis Bentley, "The Goophered... See More
Literary Fiction
A striking mosaic of prose, poetry, and dramatic dialogue, Jean Toomer's Cane has come to be considered a masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance. Structured as a series of vignettes ripe with longing, passion, violence, and... See More
Religious text written by American novelist and poet, Jean Toomer See More
Literature & Fiction
First published in 1923, Cane is a significant work of Modernist fiction and a literary Goliath of the Harlem Renaissance. In this wholly original novel Jean Toomer highlights issues of class and caste in a three-part... See More
The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s... See More
ClassicsPaul Lawrence Dunbar, W.E.B. Du Bois, Alice Nelson Dunbar, Angeline Weld Grimke, Jean Toomer, Countee Cullen, and Phillis Wheatley are among the classic and modern Black poets included in Appreciation of Black Poets. An... See More
PoetryAfrican American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. It begins with the works of such late 18th-century writers as Phillis Wheatley. Before the high point of... See More
Literature & FictionAfrican American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. It begins with the works of such late 18th-century writers as Phillis Wheatley. Before the high point of... See More