Cane
Toomer, Jean
| Autor: | Toomer, Jean |
|---|---|
| Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 01.04.2025 |
| EAN: | 9789371134552 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 118 |
| Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Verlag: | Double 9 Books |
Produktinformationen "Cane"
Cane explores cultural memory, identity, and dislocation through an enthralling fusion of prose, poetry, and dramatic dialogue. The book moves between rural Southern settings and urban Northern scenes, emphasizing the shifts in voice, tone, and form. It opens with haunting glimpses of agrarian life images of sugarcane fields, reapers, and spiritual isolation capturing an intimate connection between people and land that is both sustaining and suffocating. The second part shifts to city life, where alienation sharpens amid industrial modernity, fractured relationships, and the complexity of self-presentation in changing social spaces. The final section returns South through the lens of a Northern intellectual, challenging romanticized notions of heritage and confronting internal conflict about race, artistry, and belonging. Refusing linear structure, the book mirrors the fragmented experience of Black identity. Tensions between history and modernity, individual and collective, voice and silence emerge repeatedly, while layered forms and musical language amplify emotional resonance.
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