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Cane

A Novel

Jean Toomer
5
(1)
Pages
118
Year
2018
Language
English

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"Cane" explores spiritual and emotional frustration, failure of basic communication between individuals, and repression of natural energies. It reveals the chaos of contemporary black American life and calls for a spiritual awakening. A land mark novel that changed the way America looked at black writers.

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"This book should be on all readers' and writers' desks and in their minds."
Maya Angelou
"I love it passionately; could not possibly exist without it."
Alice Walker
"[Toomer avoided] the pitfalls of propaganda and moralizing on the one hand and the snares of a false and hollow race pride on the other hand."
Montgomery Gregory

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