{"product_id":"cane-by-jean-toomer-9780393931686","title":"Cane","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 1923, Jean Toomer's \u003cem\u003eCane\u003c\/em\u003e remains an innovative literary work—part drama, part poetry, part fiction. This revised Norton Critical Edition builds upon the First Edition (1988), which was edited by the late Darwin T. Turner, a pioneering scholar in the field of African American studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Second Edition begins with the editors' introduction, a major work of scholarship that places Toomer within the context of American Modernism 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIllustrative materials include government documents containing contradictory information on Toomer's race, several photographs of Toomer, and a map of Sparta, Georgia—the inspiration for the first and third parts of \u003cem\u003eCane\u003c\/em\u003e. The edition reprints the 1923 foreword to \u003cem\u003eCane\u003c\/em\u003e by Toomer’s friend Waldo Frank, which helped introduce Toomer to a small but influential readership. Revised and expanded explanatory annotations are also included.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Backgrounds and Sources\" collects a wealth of autobiographical writing that illuminates important phases in Jean Toomer’s intellectual life, including a central chapter from \u003cem\u003eThe Wayward and the Seeking\u003c\/em\u003e and Toomer's essay on teaching the philosophy of Russian psychologist and mystic Georges I. Gurdjieff, \"Why I Entered the Gurdjieff Work.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn unusually rich \"Criticism\" section demonstrates deep and abiding interest in \u003cem\u003eCane\u003c\/em\u003e. Five contemporary reviews—including those by Robert Littell, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Alain Locke—suggest its initial reception. From the wealth of scholarly commentary on \u003cem\u003eCane\u003c\/em\u003e, the editors have chosen twenty-one major interpretations spanning eight decades, including those by Langston Hughes, Robert Bone, Darwin T. Turner, Charles T. Davis, Alice Walker, Gayl Jones, Barbara Foley, Mark Whalan, and Nellie Y. McKay.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA Chronology, new to the Second Edition, and an updated Selected Bibliography are also included.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46853248286956,"sku":"9780393931686","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/6397743482328.jpg?v=1759192737","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/cane-by-jean-toomer-9780393931686","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}