Cane
1993 · book
A literary masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance, Caneis a powerful work of innovative fiction evoking black life in the South. The sketches, poems, and stories of black rural and urban life that make up Caneare rich in imagery. Visions of smoke, sugarcane, dusk, and flame permeate the Southern landscape: the Northern world is pictured as a harsher reality of asphalt streets. Impressionistic, sometimes surrealistic, the pieces are redolent of nature and Africa, with sensuous appeals to eye and ear.