{"title":"Jean Toomer","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"cane-paperback","title":"Cane - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1923, Jean Toomer's \u003cem\u003eCane\u003c\/em\u003e is an innovative literary work--part drama, part poetry, part fiction--powerfully evoking black life in the South. Rich in imagery, Toomer's impressionistic, sometimes surrealistic sketches of Southern rural and urban life are permeated by visions of smoke, sugarcane, dusk, and fire; the northern world is pictured as a harsher reality of asphalt streets. This iconic work of American literature is published with a new afterword by Rudolph Byrd of Emory University and Henry Louis Gates Jr. of Harvard University, who provide groundbreaking biographical information on Toomer, place his writing within the context of American modernism and the Harlem Renaissance, and examine his shifting claims about his own race and his pioneering critique of race as a scientific or biological concept.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50622665097439,"sku":"9780871402103","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/vs3Mqxm9pV9780871402103.webp?v=1785530185"},{"product_id":"cane-paperback-1","title":"Cane - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2018 Reprint of 1923 Edition. \u003cem\u003eCane\u003c\/em\u003e is structured as a series of vignettes revolving around the origins and experiences of African Americans in the United States. The vignettes alternate in structure between narrative prose, poetry, and play-like passages of dialogue. As a result, the novel has been classified as a composite novel or as a short story cycle. Though some characters and situations recur between vignettes, the vignettes are mostly freestanding, tied to the other vignettes thematically and contextually more than through specific plot details. The ambitious, nontraditional structure of the novel - and its later influence on future generations of writers - have helped Cane gain status as a classic of High Modernism. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Negro Novel in America\u003c\/em\u003e, Robert A. Bone wrote: \"By far the most impressive product of the Negro Renaissance, \u003cem\u003eCane\u003c\/em\u003e ranks with Richard Wright's \u003cem\u003eNative Son\u003c\/em\u003e and Ralph Ellison's \u003cem\u003eInvisible Man\u003c\/em\u003e as a measure of the Negro novelist's highest achievement. Jean Toomer belongs to that first rank of writers who use words almost as a plastic medium, shaping new meanings from an original and highly personal style.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlice Walker said of the book, \"It has been reverberating in me to an astonishing degree. I love it passionately, could not possibly exist without it.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50622665130207,"sku":"9781684223008","price":13.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/ZdBUA9SMyk9781684223008.webp?v=1785530189"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/jean-toomer.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}