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Cane
The cane that grows in fields and stands all throughout the Georgia stories, poems, and vignettes in Cane represents the point of connection between Black people and the American South and between Black Americans and…
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House
Appearing mostly in the second, Northern section of Cane, houses represent both the promise of the Great Migration as well as the oppression of social expectations. Most of the characters in the Southern section…
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Smoke
Smoke drifts through the Southern section of Cane—most of it coming in whisps from the sawdust piles of the local sawmill—representing the ways in which segregation, racism, and exploitation use up the lives and…
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Train
Appearing primarily in the first, Southern section of Cane, trains and their tracks represent the wish (and in some cases the ability) to escape the South and all that it entails, from the overt…
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