Cane

Paperback, 224 pages

Published Jan. 8, 2019 by Penguin Classics.

ISBN:
978-0-14-313367-4
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4 stars (8 reviews)

This is a collection of short stories and poems written about the lives of African Americans in the 1920s.

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5 stars

An excellent experimentally modernist hybrid text, combining poems, character sketches, and a final narrative. Toomer brings these disconnected pieces together to create a larger history of life in the South underscored by racialized violence.

Another text I read for Erin Edwards' [b:The Modernist Corpse: Posthumanism and the Posthumous|36419761|The Modernist Corpse Posthumanism and the Posthumous|Erin E. Edwards|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1509572109s/36419761.jpg|58116912].