Cane: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Cane, credited to Jean Toomer, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Cane by Jean Toomer. Read in English by Jim Locke. Reading this book, I had a vision of a land, heretofore sunk in the mists of muteness, suddenly rising up into the eminence of song. Innumerable books have been written about the South; some good books have been written in the South. This book is the South. . . . . Part One is the primitive and evanescent world of Georgia. Part Two is the threshing and suffering brown world of Washington. . . . Part Three is Georgia again . . . this black womb of the ferment seed: the neurotic, educated, spiritually stirring Negro. From the Forward by Waldo Frank

Recording facts

• Recording title: Cane
• Author credits: Jean Toomer
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 31
• Listed recording duration: 4:40:33

Catalogue topics

• America
• south
• race
• african american
• identity
• black
• struggle
• georgia

Opening tracks: first 24 of 31

1. 00 - Forward — 7:18
2. 01 - Karintha — 4:54
3. 02 - Reapers — 1:02
4. 03 - November Cotton Flower — 1:17
5. 04 - Becky — 7:09
6. 05 - Face — 0:51
7. 06 - Cotton Song — 1:17
8. 07 - Carma — 6:09
9. 08 - Song of the Son — 1:55
10. 09 - Georgia Dusk — 2:13
11. 10 - Fern — 12:37
12. 11 - Nullo — 0:44
13. 12 - Evening Song — 1:08
14. 13 - Esther — 15:40
15. 14 - Conversion — 0:40
16. 15 - Portrait in Georgia — 0:51
17. 16 - Blood-burning Moon — 22:29
18. 17 - Seventh Street — 2:42
19. 18 - Rhobert — 4:13
20. 19 - Avey — 14:50
21. 20 - Beehive — 1:04
22. 21 - Storm Ending — 0:49
23. 22 - Theater — 12:39
24. 23 - Her Lips Are Copper Wire — 1:06

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