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Cane (1975) (edit title/settings)

by Jean Toomer (Author) (edit contributors)

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"Cane has been reverberating in me to an astonishing degree. I love it passionately; could not possibly exist without it." —Alice Walker 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... read more

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  • “Karintha, at twelve, was a wild flash that told the other folks just what it was to live.”
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  • As you know, men are apt to idolize or fear that which they cannot understand, especially if it be a woman.
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  • Fern’s eyes desired nothing that you could give her; there was no reason why they should withhold.
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  • Nigger was something more. How much more? Something to be afraid of, more? Hell no. Who ever heard of being afraid of a nigger?
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  • She stoned the cows, and beat her dog, and fought the other children…Even the preacher, who caught her at mischief, told himself that she was as innocently lovely as a November cotton flower.
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  • Brown eyes that loved without a trace of fear, Beauty so sudden for that time of year.
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  • There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, in such a way that no one may isolate them. No one should want to. Perfect joy, or perfect pain, with no contrasting element to define them, would mean a monotony of consciousness, would mean death.
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  • The full moon in the great door was an omen. Negro women improvised songs against its spell.
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  • Karintha is a woman. Men do not know that the soul of her was a growing thing ripened too soon.
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  • Time and space have no meaning in a canefield. No more than the interminable stalks…Some
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  • “Doesnt it make you mad?” She meant the row of petty gossiping people. She meant the world.
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First Sentence edit see section history

Her skin is like dusk on the eastern horizon, O cant you see it, O cant you see it, Her skin is like dusk on the eastern horizon . . . When the sun goes down.

Table of Contents edit see section history

Introduction by Darwin T. Turner

Karintha
Reapers
November Cotton Flower
Becky
Face
Cotton Song
Carma
Song of the Son
Georgia Dusk
Fern
Nullo
Evening Song
Esther
Conversion
Portrait in Georgia
Blood-Burning Moon

Seventh Street
Rhobert
Avey
Beehive
Storm Ending
Theater
Her Lips Are Copper Wire
Calling Jesus
Box Seat
Prayer
Harvest Song
Bona and Paul

Kabnis

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 64 of 100 in 20th Century's Greatest Hits: 100 English-Language Books of Fiction. (authoritative list)

Preceded by Dubliners, and followed by The House of Mirth.

This is book 711 of 1272 in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. (authoritative list)

Preceded by Zeno's Conscience, and followed by Antic Hay.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Jean Toomer (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Liveright
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1975
ISBN: 0871401045
Page Count: 116

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