Cane

J Toomer

• 01 februari 1988
• 9780393956009

Samenvatting:

Backgrounds contains generous excerpts from Jean Toomer'scorrespondence with fellow writers Sherwood Anderson, Waldo Frank, andAllen Tate, and with his publisher, Horace Liveright.Darwin T. Turner's Introduction (to the 1975 Liveright edition ofCane), reprinted here, presents the historical and literary backgroundsof the work, as well as additional biographical information on Toomer. Criticism, both contemporary and recent, on Cane and Toomer iswide-ranging and includes essays by W. E. B. Du Bois, Gorham B. Munson, Robert Bone, Patricia Watkins, Lucinda H. MacKethan, Nellie Y. McKay, and Darwin T. Turner.