"In the land of cotton": economics and violence in Jean Toomer's 'Cane.' (African-American woman author)
From: African American Review
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Date: 6/22/1998
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Author: Foley, Barbara
Scholars differ in opinion about the link of author Jean Toomer's novel 'Cane' to the economic and social realities facing rural and small-town Georgia blacks in the early 1920s. Some critics interpret the novel as a nostalgic celebration of a vanishing peasant existence close to earth. Toomer's novel may acknowledge the brutalities of racism and poverty but it subordinates social protest to poetry and the portrayal of the present to the search for truths beyond the constraints of history.
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