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title: "Cane: A Norton Critical Edition (Norton Critical Editions)"
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# Cane: A Norton Critical Edition (Norton Critical Editions)

**Brand:** jean toomerrudolph p. byrdhenry louis gates jr.
**Price:** R874
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- **What is this?** Cane: A Norton Critical Edition (Norton Critical Editions) by jean toomerrudolph p. byrdhenry louis gates jr.
- **How much does it cost?** R874 with free shipping
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A MUST-HAVE BOOK; BUY IT
*by M***Y on June 10, 2004*

One of the best books I have read. Just don't try to categorize it. Perhaps it is the freedom from a "format" that makes it so creative. He tells little stories about people with such power and reflections on the sexual the spiritual the racial the natural world. It is prose poetry. I have not even finished reading it yet! I urge you to by this edition which includes critical essays on CANE. Not that they can ever truly dissect it -- that's what makes it so great. So, he didn't consider himself black -- probably neither does Michael Jackson -- and he's still a genious. The WORK is what is important.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Five Stars
*by M***. on March 29, 2016*

A+++++++

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Musical Masterpiece of Modernism
*by E***D on February 27, 2011*

Forgive the pseudo-pretentious title, but I have been terribly enamored with this work for quite some time. I originally read this work in a course on literary modernism and have since re-approached the work two or three times. Toomer's novel deals explicitly with the intersection of race and sexuality. It can be quite graphic--what the novel suggests is more visceral than any of its literal depictions. While it is a collection of short stories, I've rarely encountered a compilation text that is so united and which flows with such unrivaled grace. The novel possesses a sort of dark music that becomes ingrained in your mind. You can almost here the melodies of the slave songs that litter Toomer's stories. It is a symphonic work of idiosyncratic experimentation, but the work is unique among modernist texts insofar as it explores both the realms of culture and consciousness with a sense of equality: neither is forsaken for the other subject. I believe it should be required reading for any student of literature, and I certainly hope that its audience continues to grow.

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