Jean Toomer (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)
Other Literary Forms
All Jean Toomer’s best fiction appears in Cane, which also includes fifteen poems. Toomer later wrote fragments of an autobiography and several essays, the most important of which are found in Essentials: Definitions and Aphorisms (1931).
Achievements
Jean Toomer’s Cane, published in 1923, is considered to be one of the masterpieces of experimental fiction and one of the most important and relevant evocations of African American life in the twentieth century. Toomer’s book was rediscovered in the late 1960’s...
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