Jean Toomer: Cane This groundbreaking work established Jean Toomer as a major voice both within the Harlem Renaissance and in the world of literary modernism at large.

Jean Toomer: Cane This groundbreaking work established Jean Toomer as a major voice both within the Harlem Renaissance and in the world of literary modernism at large.
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Compare and contrast Jean Toomer’s treatment of race in the work Cane with that of Faulkner’s in his work As I Lay Dying.

As I Lay Dying
This novel, the briefest and, in some ways, the most accessible of Faulkner’s great works, details the death and burial of a rural Mississippi matriarch and her family’s journey to bury her. Faulkner uses multiple narrators to slowly unearth a complex tale of deceit and betrayal.