Cane

"Backgrounds" contains generous excerpts from Jean Toomer'scorrespondence with fellow writers Sherwood Anderson, Waldo Frank, andAllen Tate, and with his publisher, Horace Liveright. Darwin T. Turner's "Introduction" (to the 1975 Liveright edition of Cane ), reprinted here, presents the historical and literary backgroundsof the work, as well as additional biographical information on Toomer. "Criticism", both contemporary and recent, on Cane and Toomer iswide-ranging and includes essays by W. E. B. Du Bois, Gorham B. Munson,Robert Bone, Patricia Watkins, Lucinda H. MacKethan, Nellie Y. McKay,and Darwin T. Turner.Toomer, Jean is the author of 'Cane', published 1987 under ISBN 9780393956009 and ISBN 0393956008.