Cane | Literary Precedents
Cane is often credited for launching the movement among African-American writers that has become known as the Harlem Renaissance. Members of this movement— Langston Hughes, Zora Neal Hurston, and James Weldon Johnson—acknowledged Toomer's influence. The theme of identity crises concerning people of mixed African-American and white blood is explored in works such as Johnson's Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man. If any word can be used to classify Cane, it would probably be modern. Like most modern works of the early-to mid-twentieth century, it takes a fragmented...
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