- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Cane
- Date of Original:
- 1923
- Subject:
- Literature
Books
Moon
Trees
Fiction
Decoration and ornament--Art deco
Palms
Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967. Cane - Location:
- United States, District of Columbia, Washington, 38.89511, -77.03637
- Medium:
- covers (gathered matter components)
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Jean Toomer's novel Cane was published in 1923. This masterpiece of the Modernist style was inspired by Toomer's visit to Georgia.
Image of the cover of Jean Toomer's 1923 novel Cane. The Art Deco cover includes stylized images of palm trees, hills, and the moon. The title of the book is written in white block letters.
Cane is an influential work about African American life in which Toomer drew largely on his experiences in Hancock County, Georgia. Toomer wrote Cane after he left his home in Washington, D.C., and worked briefly as a substitute principal at a black industrial school in the middle Georgia town of Sparta. There he experienced a creative outpouring of poetry, drama, stories, and sketches that formed Cane, a narrative that begins in the rural South, switches to the urban North, and returns to the South for its conclusion. "Sempter," the southern setting of Cane, is modeled on Sparta and the people and places Toomer encountered there in the fall of 1921. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/cane/m-3940/
- Rights Holder:
- Courtesy of Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Courtesy of Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University Libraries - Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/jean-toomer-1894-1967
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia
Yale Collection of American Literature - Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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