Cane - Jean Toomer torrent

Category: Adults, Classic, General Fiction, Poetry
Language: English
Keywords: 20th Century Black Modernism Race Relations Short Story Southern

Written by Jean Toomer
Read by Sean Crisden
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

A literary masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance, Cane is a powerful work of innovative fiction evoking black life in the South. The sketches, poems, and stories of black rural and urban life that make up Cane are rich in imagery. Visions of smoke, sugarcane, dusk, and flame permeate the Southern landscape: the Northern world is pictured as a harsher reality of asphalt streets. Impressionistic, sometimes surrealistic, the pieces are redolent of nature and Africa, with sensuous appeals to eye and ear.

Originally published 1923.