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Cane

A Novel
By:Jean Toomer
Publisher:Wilder Publications, Inc
Print ISBN:9781515440024
eText ISBN:9781515439295
Edition:0
Format:Reflowable

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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.I love it passionately; could not possibly exist without it. — Alice WalkerThis book should be on all readers' and writers' desks and in their minds. — Maya Angelou[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