Cane : A Norton Critical Edition

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This Norton Critical Edition includes:The text of Toomer’s 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 Toomer’s 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 responses—nine of which are new to the Third Edition—from contemporary and modern critics examining important themes in the work. A chronology of Toomer’s life and a selected bibliography.