Harlem Renaissance: Five Novels of the 1920s (LOA #217): Cane / Home to Harlem / Quicksand / Plum Bun / The Blacker the Berry (Library of America Harlem Renaissance Novels Collection) Matthew Cody During the early hours of

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Harlem Renaissance: Five Novels of the 1920s (LOA #217): Cane / Home to Harlem / Quicksand / Plum Bun / The Blacker the Berry (Library of America Harlem Renaissance Novels Collection) Matthew Cody During the early hours ofHARLEM RENAISSANCE: Five Novels of the 1920s leads off with Jean Toomer's Cane (1923), a unique fusion of fiction, poetry, and drama rooted in Toomer's experiences as a teacher in Georgia. Toomer's masterpiece was followed within a few years by a cluster of novels exploring black experience and the dilemmas of black identity in a variety of modes and from different angles. Claude McKay's Home to Harlem (1928), whose freewheeling, impressionistic,