Cane : authoritative text, backgrounds and contexts, criticism / Jean Toomer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., editor.

McCarthy, Jesse, editor.

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.

Series:

Norton critical edition

Norton critical editions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967. Cane.

Toomer, Jean.

African Americans--Fiction.

African Americans.

Southern States--Fiction.

Southern States.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

lxxxvii, 430 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm.

Edition:

Third edition / edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Jesse McCarthy.

Place of Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton and Company , [2025]

Contents:

Introduction

"Song of the Son"

Jean Toomer's racial self-identification: a note on the supporting materials

New findings on Nathan Toomer and his first wife, Harriet Haslam / Kimberly N. Morgan

The text of Cane

Forward to the 1923 edition of Cane / Waldo Frank

Map of Sparta, Georgia

Backgrounds and contexts

The Cane years / Jean Toomer

Art in Washington / Jean Toomer

Why I entered the Gurdjieff work / Jean Toomer

Correspondence

To Alain Locke (November 11, 1919)

To Georgia Douglas Johnson (December 1919)

To Georgia Douglas Johnson (January 7, 1920)

To Georgia Douglas Johnson (February 20, 1920)

To Alain Locke (December 24, 1920)

To Alain Locke (January 26, 1921)

To Alain Locke (November 8, 1921)

To Alain Leroy Locke (November 24, 1921)

To Waldo Frank (March 24, 1922)

To Jean Toomer (April 25, 1922) / Waldo Frank

To Waldo Frank (April 26, 1922)

To Waldo Frank (August 21, 1922)

To John McClure (July 22, 1922)

To Claude McKay (July 23, 1922)

To the editors of The Liberator (August 19, 1922)

To Alain Locke (October 1, 1922)

To Gorham B. Munson (October 31, 1922)

To Sherwood Anderson (December 18, 1922)

To Waldo Frank (December 1922)

To Waldo Frank (December 12, 1922)

To Sherwood Anderson (December 29, 1922)

To Alain Locke (January 2, 1923)

To Waldo Frank (early January 1923)

To Waldo Frank (early to mid-January 1923)

To Horace Liveright (January 11, 1923)

To Horace Liveright (February 27, 1923)

To Horace Liveright (March 9, 1923)

To Horace Liveright (September 5, 1923)

To Countee Cullen (October 1, 1923)

To Georgia O'Keefee (January 13, 1924)

To James Weldon Johnson (July 11, 1930)

Criticism

Contemporary Reviews

A review of Cane / Montgomery Gregory

A review of Cane / Robert Littell

The Younger Literary Movement / W. E. B. Du Bois and Alain Locke

The significance of Jean Toomer / Gorham B. Munson

Jean Toomer / Paul Rosenfeld

Critical Interpretations

Jean Toomer / Sterling A. Brown

Gurdjieff in Harlem / Langston Hughes

Introduction to the 1969 edition of Cane / Arna Bontemps

The divided life of Jean Toomer / Alice Walker

Blues ballad: Jean Toomer's "Karintha" / Gayl Jones

Looking behind Cane / David Bradley

A key to the poems in Cane / Bernard Bell

Jean Toomer and the "New Negroes" of Washington / George B. Hutchinson

May Howard Jackson and the development of Toomer's multiracial modernism / Laura Lorhan

Jean Toomer's Washington and the politics of class: from "Blue Veins" to Seventh-Street rebels / Barbara Foley

Cane in the magazines: race, form, and global periodical networks / Eurie Dahn

"When the sun goes down": the ghetto pastoral mode in Jean Toomer's Cane / Donald M. Schaffer, Jr.

Mary Turner's blues / Julie Buckner Armstrong

Jean Toomer's Cane and the erotics of mourning / Jennifer D. Williams

Circularity and fragmentation: the structure of modernism in Jean Toomer's Cane / Cindy H. Zhang

[Frank, Toomer, and the Black enfleshment] / Benjamin Kahan and Madoka Kishi.

Notes:

Previous edition: published as edited by Rudolph P. Byrd, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 2011.

Includes bibliographical references.

Contains:

Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967. Cane.

ISBN:

9781324088059

1324088052

OCLC:

1520032820

Publisher Number:

CIPO000224137