Jean Toomer’s Cane presents a problem for people who like to lump books into categories of comparable writers. It firmly sits in the realm of Great Books broadly defined, probably not in a narrow set of Great Books, though. But, if you like finer gradations, you have two options. First option: it belongs in the camp with people like Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and Langston Hughes. The book is included in, for example, the Library of America’s Harlem Renaissance: Five Novels of the 1920s. … [Read more...] about Cane
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