[Gutenberg 60093] • Cane

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.