Description
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, asking how original readers would have encountered his work.
John K. Young is professor of English at Marshall University. Previous publications include How to Revise a True War Story: Tim O’Brien’s Process of Textual Production (Iowa, 2017). He lives outside Columbus, Ohio.