The Roots of Cane: Jean Toomer and American Magazine Modernism

by John K. Young

The Roots of Cane proposes a new way to read one of the most significant works of the New Negro Renaissance, Jean Toomer's Cane. Rather than focusing on the form of the book published by Boni and Liveright, what Toomer would later call a single textual "organism," John Young traces the many pieces of Cane that were dispersed across multiple modernist magazines from 1922 through 1923. These periodicals ranged from primarily political...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1609389654
• ISBN13: 9781609389659
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: University of Iowa Press
• Length: 330 Pages