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First printed in 1923, Jean Toomer's Cane can be an ground breaking literary work powerfully evoking dark life in the South. Abundant with imagery, Toomer's impressionistic, sometimes surrealistic sketches of Southern rural and metropolitan life are permeated by visions of smoke, sugarcane, dusk, and open fire; the northern world is pictured as a harsher certainty of asphalt pavements. This iconic work of American literature is printed with a new afterword by Rudolph Byrd of Emory School and Henry Louis Gates Jr. of Harvard School, who provide groundbreaking biographical information on Toomer, place his writing within the framework of American modernism and the Harlem Renaissance, and look at his shifting cases about his own race and his pioneering critique of race as a technological or biological principle.
