The growing interest in Afro-American litera ture that began in the 1960s led to the rediscovery of earlier Afro-American writers, one of whom was Jean Toomer, author of Cane. Originally published in 1923, Cane is generally consid ered a principle literary masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance. It is an innovative work--part drama, part poetry, part fiction.

Preface

A Note on the Text

The Text of Cane

Backgrounds

　Darwin T. Turner·Introduction [to the 1975 Edition of Cane]

Waldo Frank·Foreword [to the 1923 Edition of Cane]

　Jean Toomer·[Autobiographical Selection]

Correspondence

Toomer on His Writing and Reputation

　To Katherine Flinn (September 2o, 1927)

To Harrison Smith (September 27, 1932)

Jean Toomer and Sherwood Anderson

To Sherwood Anderson (December 1922)

To Sherwood Anderson (December 29, 1922)

Cane, Sherwood Anderson, and the Negro

To Waldo Frank (undated, late 1922 or early 1927)

The Making of Cane

To Waldo Frank (July 25, 1922)

To Waldo Frank (December 12, 1922)

Waldo Frank to Jean Toomer (undated, late 1922 or early 1927)

To Waldo Frank (undated, late 1922 or early 1923)

Waldo Frank to Jean Toomer (undated, late 1922 or early 1923)

To Horace Liveright (February 27, 1923)

Manuel Komroff to Jean Toomer (March 14, 1923)

Waldo Frank to Jean Toomer (undated, summer 1923

Waldo Frank to Jean Toomer (August 1923)

Waldo Frank to Jean Toomer (undated, summer 1923

To Waldo Frank [?] (undated, September 19237)

Advertising Cane

To Horace Liveright (September 5, 1923)

Projects after Cane

To Horace Liveright (March 1923)

Toomer's Art

Waldo Frank to Jean Toomer (April 25, 1922)

Waldo Frank to Jean Toomer (July 26, 1922)

Sherwood Anderson to Jean Toomer (December 22, 1922)

Sherwood Anderson to Jean Toomer (undated, ca. 1923)

Waldo Frank to Jean Toomer (undated, ca. 1923)

Allen Tate to Jean Toomer (November 7, 1923)

Sherwood Anderson to Jean Toomer (January 3,1924)

John McClure to Sherwood Anderson(January 22, 1924)

Criticism

Contemporary Criticism

Montgomery Gregory·[Self-Expression in Cane]

Robert Littell * Cane

W. E. B. Du Bois·[Sexual Liberation in Cane]

Gorham B. Munson·[Toomer as Artist]

More Recent Criticism

W. Edward Farrison·Jean Toomer's Cane

Robert Bone·[Jean Toomer's Cane]

Arna Bontemps·[Commentary on Jean Toomer and Cane]

B. F. McKeever·Cane as Blues

John M. Reilly * The Search for Black Redemption: Jean Toomer's Cane

Darwin T. Turner·[Contrasts and Limitations in Cane]

Patricia Watkins·Is There a Unifying Theme in Cane?

Susan L. Blake·[The Spectatorial Artist in Part One of Cane]

Bernard W. Bell·[The Poems of Cane]

Michael Krasny·The Aesthetic Structure of Jean Toomer's Cane

Lucinda H. MacKethan·Jean Toomer's Cane: A Pastoral Problem

 Nellie Y. McKay·[Structure, Theme, and Imagery in Cane]

Selected Bibliography