{"id":11088,"date":"2010-12-30T16:43:16","date_gmt":"2010-12-30T16:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=11088"},"modified":"2017-04-10T16:56:36","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T16:56:36","slug":"cane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=11088","title":{"rendered":"Cane"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cane<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
\n<\/a>January 2011 (Originally published in 1923)
\n560 pages
\n5 \u00d7 8 in
\nPaperback ISBN: 978-0-393-93168-6<\/p>\n

Jean Toomer<\/a><\/strong> (1894-1967)<\/p>\n

Edited by:<\/p>\n

Rudolph P. Byrd<\/a><\/strong> (1953-2011), Goodrich C. White Professor of American Studies and African American Studies
\nEmory University<\/em><\/p>\n

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.<\/a><\/strong>, Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director, W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research
\nHarvard University<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

A masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance<\/a> and a canonical work in both the American and the African American literary traditions, Cane<\/em> is now available in a revised and expanded Norton Critical Edition.<\/p>\n

Originally published in 1923, Jean Toomer\u2019s Cane<\/em> remains an innovative literary work\u2014part drama, party poetry, part fiction. This revised Norton Critical Edition builds upon the First Edition (1988), which was edited by the late Darwin T. Turner<\/a>, a pioneering scholar in the field of African American studies. The Second Edition begins with the editors\u2019 introduction, a major work of scholarship that places Toomer within the context of American Modernism<\/a> and the Harlem Renaissance. The introduction provides groundbreaking biographical information on Toomer and examines his complex, contradictory racial position as well as his own pioneering views on race. Illustrative materials include government documents containing contradictory information on Toomer\u2019s race, several photographs of Toomer, and a map of Sparta, Georgia<\/a>\u2014the inspiration for the first and third parts of Cane<\/em>. The edition reprints the 1923 foreword to Cane<\/em> by Toomer\u2019s friend Waldo Frank<\/a>, which helped introduce Toomer to a small but influential readership. Revised and expanded explanatory annotations are also included.<\/p>\n

\u201cBackgrounds and Sources\u201d collects a wealth of autobiographical writing that illuminates important phases in Jean Toomer\u2019s intellectual life, including a central chapter from The Wayward and the Seeking<\/em> and Toomer\u2019s essay on teaching the philosophy of Russian psychologist and mystic Georges I. Gurdjieff<\/a>, \u201cWhy I Entered the Gurdjieff Work.\u201d The volume also reprints thirty of Toomer\u2019s letters from 1919\u201330, the height of his literary career, to correspondents including Waldo Frank, Sherwood Anderson<\/a>, Claude McKay<\/a>, Horace Liveright<\/a>, Georgia O\u2019Keeffe<\/a>, and James Weldon Johnson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

An unusually rich \u201cCriticism\u201d section demonstrates deep and abiding interest in Cane<\/em>. Five contemporary reviews\u2014including those by Robert Littell<\/a> and W. E. B. Du Bois<\/a> and Alain Locke<\/a>\u2014suggest its initial reception. From the wealth of scholarly commentary on Cane<\/em>, the editors have chosen twenty-one major interpretations spanning eight decades including those by Langston Hughes<\/a>, Robert Bone, Darwin T. Turner, Charles T. Davis<\/a>, Alice Walker<\/a>, Gayl Jones<\/a>, Barbara Foley<\/a>, Mark Whalan<\/a>, and Nellie Y. McKay<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A Chronology, new to the Second Edition, and an updated Selected Bibliography are also included.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1245,11,1196,8,15,6462],"tags":[1059,717,4908,4907,4906,566,55,4904,948,488,4909,4910,4905,4911,4903,4902,122],"class_list":["post-11088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-books","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-novels","category-passing-2","tag-alain-locke","tag-alice-walker","tag-barbara-foley","tag-charles-t-davis","tag-darwin-t-turner","tag-gayl-jones","tag-harlem-renaissance","tag-henry-l-gates","tag-henry-louis-gates","tag-langston-hughes","tag-mark-whalan","tag-nellie-y-mckay","tag-robert-bone","tag-robert-littell","tag-rudolph-byrd","tag-rudolph-p-byrd","tag-w-e-b-du-bois"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53392,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11088\/revisions\/53392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}