Cane: A Norton Critical Edition

“For more than a hundred years, Cane has fascinated and frustrated readers. This new critical edition provides crucial historical, biographical, and genealogical materials that together offer tools for readers to engage this crucial novel in its complexity and contradictions.”—ERICH NUNN, Auburn University

“This is the most comprehensive collection of scholarship on this uniquely remarkable literary work. Gates and McCarthy bring together the most recent critical studies on Toomer’s work while producing new discoveries of Toomer’s own writings to give any new or returning reader of Cane—student or teacher—a deep well of finely curated secondary readings to draw from as accompaniment to this ageless African American literary work of evocative narrative sensuousness.”—CHIJI AKOMA, Villanova University