Cane

Cane

African Americans Fiction.
African Americans.
Southern States Fiction.
Southern States.
Woodcuts.
Fiction.
Novels.
Livres d'artistes.

"Jean Toomer’s Cane is regarded as the highest literary achievement of the Harlem Renaissance and a masterpiece of African American writing, a blend of fiction, poetry, and drama set alternately in rural Georgia and Washington, D.C., among other locations. Puryear first read Cane while he was teaching at Fisk University, in Nashville, his first experience living in the south. He said that he related to the point of view of a visitor 'looking at what so defines blackness in America, the agricultural life of the South, the sharecropping that had grown out of slavery.' In the late 1990s Puryear was asked to contribute illustrations to a new edition of the book." - The Art Institute of Chicago

Jean Toomer
Martin Puryear

San Francisco : Arion Press

2000

Myles Mikulic

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141 pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 30 x 36 cm

English

Book