Cane

This Norton Critical Edition includes: The text of Toomers genre-bending masterpiece as edited by Darwin T. Turner for the First Norton Critical Edition (1988). A revised and expanded introduction, featuring new archival discoveries, and annotations by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Jesse McCarthy. Thirteen illustrations related to Toomers life, which are new to the Third Edition, and the map of Sparta, Georgia, that accompanies the text. Thirty-five background selections that feature additional writings by Toomer and extensive excerpts from his personal correspondence. Twenty-five critical responsesnine of which are new to the Third Editionfrom contemporary and modern critics examining important themes in the work. A chronology of Toomers life and a selected bibliography.