Table Of Contents:
Preface vii
A Note on the Text x
The Text of Cane 1(118)
Backgrounds 119(126)

Introduction [to the 1975 Edition of Cane] 121(17)

Darwin T. Turner

Foreword [to the 1923 Edition of Cane] 138(9)

Waldo Frank

[Autobiographical Selection] 140(7)

Jean Toomer

Correspondence 147(16)

Toomer on His Writing and Reputation 147(1)

To Katherine Flinn (September 20, 1927) 147(1)

To Harrison Smith (September 27, 1932) 147(1)

Jean Toomer and Sherwood Anderson 148(2)

To Sherwood Anderson (December 1922) 148(1)

To Sherwood Anderson (December 29, 1922) 149(1)

Cane, Sherwood Anderson, and the Negro 150(1)

To Waldo Frank (undated, late 1922 or early 1923) 150(1)

The Making of Cane 151(5)

To Waldo Frank (July 25, 1922) 151(1)

To Waldo Frank (December 12, 1922) 152(1)

Waldo Frank to Jean Toomer (undated, late 1922 or early 1923) 152(1)

To Waldo Frank (undated, late 1922 or early 1923) 153(1)

Waldo Frank to Jean Toomer (undated, late 1922 or early 1923) 153(1)

To Horace Liveright (February 27, 1923) 153(1)

Manuel Komroff to Jean Toomer (March 14, 1923) 154(1)

Waldo Frank to Jean Toomer (undated, summer 1923 154(1)

Waldo Frank to Jean Toomer (August 1923) 155(1)

Waldo Frank to Jean Toomer (undated, summer 1923 155(1)

To Waldo Frank [?] (undated, September 1923?) 156(1)

Advertising Cane 156(1)

To Horace Liveright (September 5, 1923) 156(1)

Projects after Cane 157(1)

To Horace Liveright (March 1923) 157(1)

Toomer's Art 157(6)

Waldo Frank to Jean Toomer (April 25, 1922) 157(3)

Waldo Frank to Jean Toomer (July 26, 1922) 160(1)

Sherwood Anderson to Jean Toomer (December 22, 1922) 160(1)

Sherwood Anderson to Jean Toomer (undated, ca. 1923) 160(1)

Waldo Frank to Jean Toomer (undated, ca. 1923) 160(1)

Allen Tate to Jean Toomer (November 7, 1923) 161(1)

Sherwood Anderson to Jean Toomer (January 3, 1924) 161(1)

John McClure to Sherwood Anderson (January 22, 1924) 161(2)

Criticism 163(82)

Contemporary Criticism 165(10)

[Self-Expression in Cane] 165(4)

Montgomery Gregory

Cane 169(1)

Robert Littell

[Sexual Liberation in Cane] 170(1)

W. E. B. Du Bois

[Toomer as Artist] 171(4)

Gorham B. Munson

More Recent Criticism 175(70)

Jean Toomer's Cane 175(5)

W. Edward Farrison

[Jean Toomer's Cane] 180(6)

Robert Bone

[Commentary on Jean Toomer and Cane] 186(6)

Arna Bontemps

Cane as Blues 192(4)

B. F. McKeever

The Search for Black Redemption: Jean Toomer's Cane 196(11)

John M. Reilly

Contrasts and Limitations in Cane] 207(8)

Darwin T. Turner

Is There a Unifying Theme in Cane? 215(2)

Patricia Watkins

[The Spectatorial Artist in Part One of Cane] 217(6)

Susan L. Blake

[The Poems of Cane] 223(4)

Bernard W. Bell

The Aesthetic Structure of Jean Toomer's Cane 227(2)

Michael Krasny

Jean Toomer's Cane: A Pastoral Problem 229(8)

Lucinda H. MacKethan

[Structure, Theme, and Imagery in Cane] 237(8)

Nellie Y. McKay
Selected Bibliography 245