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    Summarized & Analyzed: "Cane"
    Summarized & Analyzed: "Cane"
    Summarized & Analyzed: "Cane"
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    Summarized & Analyzed: "Cane"

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    The structure of the novel is particularly noticeable because the vignettes keep alternating between prose, poetry, and passages that have dialogue. According to some critics and scholars, it is a kind of composite novel. It is also classified as a cycle of short stories.

    Most of the vignettes are free and they have their different storylines and events, however, they are thematically and contextually tied to each other. There are some characters and situations which recur between vignettes.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRaja Sharma
    Release dateSep 12, 2017
    ISBN9781370137015
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      Introduction

      About Cane

      Plot Overview

      More About Cane

      About Major Characters

      Complete Summary

      Critical Analysis

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      Introduction

      Student World is a group of college lecturers and professors. We understand how high school and college students feel when they are given to read literature, especially classics. They generally get lost in the long and complex sentences, a parade of characters, and shifting narratives, thus making it difficult for them to make head from tail.

      Our guide books are written in very simple and clear language, without exaggerating the facts. We do not include our opinions and never become too subjective while analyzing the works of literature.

      We try to make our books as easy as possible for students to read them and learn from them so that when they read the original texts of the classics or other works of literature, they are prepared and they know what the work is about.

      In this book we have included introduction to the book, plot overview, about major characters, complete summary, and critical analysis.

      Although we know that some students do not want to read the original text because they prepare only to pass their exams or tests, yet we insist that they read the original text of Cane so that they can understand the subtle aspects of the narrative which can't be presented in this treatise.

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      About Cane

      Jean Toomer is known as one of the Harlem Renaissance authors. The present novel Cane was first published in 1923. The novel has a non-traditional structure and it consists of several vignettes which primarily tell about the origins and experiences of African Americans in the United States of America.

      The structure of the novel is particularly noticeable because the vignettes keep alternating between prose, poetry, and passages that have dialogue. According to some critics and scholars, it is a kind of composite novel. It is also classified as a cycle of short stories.

      Most of the vignettes are free and they have their different storylines and events, however, they are thematically and contextually tied to each other. There are some characters and situations which recur between vignettes.

      It is also notable that many of the vignettes from this novel have been anthologized in different literary collections.

      According to Toomer, he thought of writing Cane while he was working as an interim principal at a school in Georgia. He said that he was a great admirer of the rural Southern black culture. The Georgian life was on the wane in those days, so he thought of writing about that life in his book. According to the author, he was greatly influenced by the slave spirituals. It is not that the author only describes the Southern life, he wove in several vignettes of Northern life as well. In those days, the lives of the black people were being reshaped owing to the Great Migration, after the First World War.

      The author is said to have done a lot of research by spending a long time in Georgina. When the book was published for the first time, most of the reviews were highly positive. The book was greatly admired by the members of the Harlem Renaissance.

      Admiring the writing and literary skills of Toomer, William Stanley Braithwaite mentioned that Cane was a book of gold and bronze, of dusk and flame, of ecstasy and pain, and the author, Jean Toomer, was a bright morning star of a new day of the race in literature.

      The author is also said to have received a congratulatory note from Countee Cullen. Likewise, several other authors and critics admired the novel and wrote highly positive reviews and articles in different magazines and newspapers.

      It is said that Jean Toomer was not very pleased when Cane began to be hailed as one of the finest work of African American Literature. He admitted that the book was only about black in America, but it was not only about the black. He did not like that his book should be marketed according to race. When the

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