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Cane

by Jean Toomer

Toomer explores the lives of black people, mostly in the rural south, specifically a tiny hamlet dominated by a sawmill (marked mostly by smells and sounds), sugar cane fields and pines, the timeseason--autumn, the time, dusk. In fact, every story in this collection could be called 'Dusk'--with all its overtones. Though largely rural, a couple of the portraits are of city people--and though Toomer was associated with the Harlem Renaissance, the city is Washington DC, where Toomer grew up, a weird liminal zone between North and South.

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English

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English

Published In

1923

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Jean Toomer

United States

Jean Toomer was an American poet and novelist commonly associated with the Harlem Renaissance, though he actively resisted the association, and modernism. His reputation stems from his novel Cane (192...

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