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May have light to moderate shelf wear and/or a remainder mark. Complete. Clean pages. paperback.

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W.W. Norton and Company 1988. Water Spots on Front Endpage. Good Condition. Unless Listed in this decription, VG or Better.

W.W. Norton and Company 1988. Water Spots on Front Endpage. Good Condition. Unless Listed in this decription, VG or Better.

Very good trade paperback.

Very good trade paperback.

Synopsis\n"Backgrounds" contains generous excerpts from Jean

Synopsis\n"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 of Cane ), 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., "[Cane] has been reverberating in me to an astonishing degree. I love it passionately; could not possibly exist without it."-Alice Walker, Originally published in 1923, Cane is considered a literary masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance., The growing interest in African-American literature that began in the 1960's led to the rediscovery of earlier African-American writers, one of whom is Jean Toomer, author of Cane. Originally published in 1923, Cane is considered a literary masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance. It is an innovative literary work-part drama, part poetry, part fiction. "Backgrounds" contains generous excerpts from Jean Toomer's correspondence with fellow writers Sherwood Anderson, Waldo Frank, and Allen Tate, and with his publisher, Horace Liveright. Darwin T. Turner's "Introduction" (to the 1975 Liveright edition of Cane), reprinted here, presents the historical and literary backgrounds of the work, as well as additional biographical information on Toomer. "Criticism, " both contemporary and recent, on Cane and Toomer is wide-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. Good condition copy, stamp on edgesText appears to be clean, Wear to over all book from storage, Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967. Cane; Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967. Cane, African Americans in literature, African Americans--Fiction, Southern States--Fiction; ISBN: 0393956008. ISBN/EAN: 9780393956009. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1561026639.