Jean Toomer: Cane (2011, Liveright)
English language
Published May 7, 2011 by Liveright.
This is a collection of short stories and poems written about the lives of African Americans in the 1920s.
Korte, lyrische vignettes over zwarte levens in de zuidelijke VS. Experimentele combinatie van poëzie en proza die nog zeer modern aandoet.
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].
