The Roots of Cane

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The Roots of Cane is written by John Kevin Young and published by University of Iowa Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1609389654 (ISBN 10) and 9781609389659 (ISBN 13).

The Roots of Cane proposes a new way to read one of the most significant works of the New Negro Renaissance, Jean Toomer's Cane. John Young traces the many pieces of Cane that were dispersed across multiple modernist magazines from 1922 through 1923. Interweaving a periodical-studies approach to modernism with book history and critical race theory, Young resituates Toomer's uneasy place within Black modernism by asking how original readers would have encountered his work.