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Cane River is a 2001 family saga by Lalita Tademy. [1] It was chosen as an Oprah's Book Club selection.. Beginning with her great-great-great-great grandmother, Elizabeth a slave owned by a Creole family, Lalita Tademy’s historical fiction novel chronicles four generations of strong, determined black women as they battle injustice to unite their family and forge success on their own terms.
Following the publication of Cane River, Tademy wrote her second book, Red River. The book is set in Colfax, Louisiana, and discusses the Colfax massacre. [1] The book begins with the massacre at Colfax, where approximately 150 slaves were killed by white individuals. The book explores the effects of the white supremacy on the black community ...
Toomer spent a great deal of time working on the structure of Cane.He said that the design was a circle. Aesthetically, Cane builds from simple to complex forms; regionally, it moves from the South to the North and then back to the South; and spiritually, it begins with "Bona and Paul," grows through the Georgia narratives, and ends in "Harvest Song."
Mills and Mills, at pp. 30–47, focus on the ambiguous religious climate of nineteenth-century Louisiana in which free people of color held some balance of power between competing Anglo and Creole cultures—the principal theme of Isle's Generation Three. Mills, Gary B. The Forgotten People: Cane River's Creoles of Color.
The New Orleans Film Society described the film, "Cane River is set near Natchitoches, in one of the first 'free communities of color.' Richard Romain plays Peter Metoyer, home to fight for his land, and Tommye Myrick plays the headstrong Maria Mathis, reluctant to succumb to his charms just because he's the scion of a famous family.
The basis for the popular show 'Virgin River' actually consists of 21 books, with stories that go way beyond the Mel and Jack we know and love.
CANE RIVER - press notes; Oscilloscope Finally Releases ‘Cane River,’ and a Son Seeks His Father’s Long-Lost Filmmaking Legacy; A New Life: Independent black filmmaking during the 1980's; Searching for Freedom in ‘Cane River’ and the Black Outdoors; The Problem With 'Anti-Racist' Movie Lists; Indie Black film ‘Cane River’ enjoys ...
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