Introduction * Rudolph P. Byrd and Henry Louis Gates Jr.: "Song of the Son": The Emergence and Passing of Jean Toomer Jean Toomer's Racial Self-Identification: A Note on the Supporting Materials *Draft Registration, June 5, 1917 *1930 Census *Detail of 1930 Census *1931 Marriage Certificate *Draft Registration, April 24, 1942 The Text of Cane Waldo Frank * Foreword to the 1923 Edition of Cane Map of Sparta, Georgia Backgrounds and Sources Background Texts Jean Toomer * The Cane Years * Why I Entered the Gurdjieff Work Correspondence To Alain Locke, November 11, 1919 To Georgia Douglas Johnson, December 1919 To Georgia Douglas Johnson, January 7, 1920 To Georgia Douglas Johnson, February 20, 1920 To Alain Locke, December 24, 1920 To Alain Locke, January 26, 1921 To Alain Locke, November 8, 1921 To Alain Locke, November 1921 To Waldo Frank, March 24, 1922 Waldo Frank to Jean Toomer, April 25, 1922 To Waldo Frank, April 26, 1922 To Waldo Frank, August 21, 1922 To John McClure, July 22, 1922 To Claude McKay, July 23, 1922 To the Editors of The Liberator, August 19, 1922 To Alain Locke, October 1, 1922 To Gorham B. Munson, October 31, 1922 To Sherwood Anderson, December 18, 1922 To Sherwood Anderson, December 29, 1922 To Waldo Frank, December 1922 To Waldo Frank, December 12, 1922 To Alain Locke, January 2, 1923 To Waldo Frank, early January 1923 To Waldo Frank, early to mid January 1923 To Waldo Frank, early January 1923 To Horace Liveright, January 11, 1923 To Horace Liveright, February 27, 1923 To Horace Liveright, March 9, 1923 To Horace Liveright, September 5, 1923 To Countee Cullen, October 1, 1923 To Georgia O'Keeffe, January 13, 1924 To James Weldon Johnson, July 11, 1930 Criticism Contemporary Reviews Montgomery Gregory * A Review of Cane Robert Littell * A Review of Cane W. E .B. Du Bois and Alain Locke * The Younger Literary Movement Gorham B. Munson * The Significance of Jean Toomer Paul Rosenfeld * Jean Toomer Critical Interpretations Sterling A.

Brown * Jean Toomer Langston Hughes * Gurdjieff in Harlem Robert Bone * [Jean Toomer's Cane] Darwin T. Turner * The Failure of a Playwright Arna Bontemps * Introduction to the 1969 Edition of Cane John M. Reilly * The Search for Black Redemption: Jean Toomer's Cane Bernard Bell * A Key to the Poems in Cane Catherine L. Innes * The Unity of Jean Toomer's Cane Charles T. Davis * Jean Toomer and the South: Region and Race as Elements within a Literary Imagination Alice Walker * The Divided Life of Jean Toomer David Bradley * Looking Behind Cane Charles Scruggs * Textuality and Vision in Jean Toomer's Cane Gayl Jones * Blues Ballad: Jean Toomer's "Karintha" George B. Hutchinson * Jean Toomer and the "New Negroes" of Washington Barbara Foley * Jean Toomer's Washington and the Politics of Class: From "Blue Veins" to Seventh-street Rebels Megan Abbott * "Dorris Dances . John Dreams": Free Indirect Discourse and Female Subjectivity in Cane Werner Sollors * Jean Toomer's Cane: Modernism and Race in Interwar America Mark Whalan * Jean Toomer and the Avant-Garde Gino Michael Pellegrini * Jean Toomer's Cane: "Mixed-Blood" Impossibilities Jennifer D. Williams * Jean Toomer's Cane and the Erotics of Mourning Nellie Y.

McKay * Jean Toomer, the Artist-An Unfulfilled American Life: An Afterword Jean Toomer: A Chronology Selected Bibliography.