First published in 1923, Cane is an innovative work-part drama, part poetry, part fiction-evoking black life in the American South. A new afterword by Rudolph Byrd and Henry Louis Gates Jr provides fresh biographical information on Jean Toomer.
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the suffering of being a human being. 所以说20世纪初到底是个什么样的时代啊。
完全不知道他想说什么……但是没法不去想那些句子……
和Woolf一起读的,可能光芒被盖过了
American modernism读的,感觉这么好的书没有汉译本很可惜虽然因为我自己的语言水平问题读到最后实在是累了所以有点没读进去但还是觉得写得很好,句子极其美丽,所谓环形结构也挺有意思;对Morrison的影响感觉有点明显
one of the greatest
Death of a folk-spirit. I can’t relate to it that much tbh bc I never grew up with the night winds whispering in the blurring purple ghettos in a southern town.
Maureen的课上读 好喜欢 有血和泥土的气息 还有很多mother
Mediocre; black language as a facade to disguise the inability to differentiate exteriority and inferiority behind black agency. Words as a form of black performance. Inaccessibility to fill in blanks, whiteness, and quite capture such stillness