num_pages: 116
description: A literary masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance, Cane is 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 Cane are 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.
language: English
title: Cane
titlecomplete: Cane
genres: Fiction, American, Short Stories, Poetry, School, Literature, Classics, 20th Century, Race, African American
ratings_count: 10313
publisher: Liveright