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CANE. A Volume in the Modern Library Series…
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CANE. A Volume in the Modern Library Series (original 1923; udgave 1994)

af Jean. TOOMER

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Originally published in 1923, Cane is a literary masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance. The growing interest in African-American literature that began in the1960's led to the rediscovery of earlier African-American writers, oneof whom is Jean Toomer, author of Cane. Itis an innovative literary work part drama, part poetry, part fiction.… (mere)
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Titel:CANE. A Volume in the Modern Library Series
Forfattere:Jean. TOOMER
Info:Modern Library, New York (1994), Hardcover
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Cane af Jean Toomer (1923)

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I was fascinated by parts of the book, not by others; but I cannot judge Jean Toomer who won praise for this. ( )
  RickGeissal | Aug 16, 2023 |
Hard poems to read. Important stories. ( )
  mykl-s | Aug 12, 2023 |
Interesting novel. It's a modernist novel. Can't really think of much to say other than I liked the writing. ( )
  Ghost_Boy | Aug 25, 2022 |
Only read selections of it. ( )
  dianahaemer | Apr 27, 2021 |
Well, this was different. The Library of America calls this a novel and maybe under some definition of a modernist novel, it may qualify. I don't read the modernists (or I do very rarely anyway) and I need my novels to have a structure or at least a plot. Although after having read that, I realize that if a structure is enough, then this indeed may be a novel. But that will also be true for linked stories collections. Or maybe I should stop trying to find a box to fit it under and just talk about the book.

The book is a mix of poems, stories, vignettes and even a mix of a play and a story at the very end. All the pieces have the same main topic - the life of African Americans in a world designed and ran by the whites. And Toomer takes a circular route into the topic - he starts with the South (Georgia), moves north (Washington) and then sends a northern man south to close the circle back in rural Georgia. And while this cycle ties the different texts together, it also highlighted the difference between the different parts.

The first one, the one set in the South reads like one of those stories that evolve around a fireplace - a mix of poetry and small stories and portraits of people and places, with repetitions inside of the same story and between stories. It sounds like a sing-song, even the parts that are obviously prose. Not all of those stories are nice, most of them are not but they all work as a whole and paints an image of a land steeped in legends and superstitions.

And as lyrical as that first part is, the second one pulls you out and throws you into the emerging jazz era of the big city. The same mix of prose and poetry reads very very differently and it loses the magic of the legends. It was intentional I think - it was supposed to show the new world but for some reason it sounded more crude and disjointed than a real counterpart of the first part.

And then comes the (almost) play, "Kabnis". A Northern black teacher moves to Georgia to teach and finds a community in the middle of a change. The lyrical language of the first part is back but now mixed with something else. The start is rough in the same way the very beginning of the novel is but once you get used to the dialect and the rhythm of the play/story, it slowly turns into the best part of the whole book. It is not just a play, there are parts of it which cannot be set on stage but using the play format allows the author not to look for scene transitions and connections and to set the acts he wants to.

Tradition meets jazz (and the new world), racism meets love and women meеt men -- most of the pieces deal with at least one of these pairs; the ones that do not deal with just one side of a pair. And somewhere under all these diverse stories and poems emerges a portrait of a time, told by a voice of someone who belongs to the Jazz era but lives outside of it.

At the end I liked this more than I expected to. I came into it with very low expectations - modernist fiction rarely works for me. And it took awhile for me to warm up to it. I still do not find the style appealing but I am happy I read this one. ( )
2 stem AnnieMod | Jun 22, 2020 |
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Toomer, Jeanprimær forfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
Bontemps, ArnaIntroduktionmedforfatternogle udgaverbekræftet
Clemmons, ZinziForordmedforfatternogle udgaverbekræftet
Fink, DanielaOversættermedforfatternogle udgaverbekræftet
Gordon, XiaOmslagsfotograf/tegner/...medforfatternogle udgaverbekræftet
Hutchinson, GeorgeIntroduktionmedforfatternogle udgaverbekræftet
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Please do not combine this LT work for Jean Toomer's original 1923 work, Cane, with the Norton Critical Edition of the same title. Norton Critical Editions are significantly different from the corresponding original works, with thorough explanatory annotations; they also need to be kept separate in order to be part of the "Norton Critical Editions" series. Thank you.
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Originally published in 1923, Cane is a literary masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance. The growing interest in African-American literature that began in the1960's led to the rediscovery of earlier African-American writers, oneof whom is Jean Toomer, author of Cane. Itis an innovative literary work part drama, part poetry, part fiction.

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