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Claude McKay
Jake is on the run. After serving overseas with the U.S. Army, he goes AWOL and makes his own way home back to Harlem. But no hero’s welcome awaits him.
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New compilation of verse by an important Jamaican-American poet. Dialect verse, standard English poems from Harlem Shadows, uncollected works, more. Edited and with an introduction by Joan R. Sherman.
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Claude Mckay
Jake Brown, a Black American soldier and a World War I deserter, returns to Harlem and struggles to find his place in a vibrant working-class community that's rife with poverty…
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This book contains a fantastic collection of McKay’s most influential articles on race and politics, not to be missed by those with an interest in American history and global politics…
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This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in…
Gary Edward Holcomb
Sasha was the code name adopted by Harlem Renaissance writer Claude McKay (1889-1948) to foil investigations of his life and work. This work analyzes three of the most important works…
The poems here presented offer much food for reflection, as McKay explores his life experiences and ancestral values through the lens of his own developing personal philosophy.
Winston James
One of the foremost Black writers and intellectuals of his era, Claude McKay (1889-1948) was a central figure in Caribbean literature, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Black radical tradition. Winston…
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Claude McKay’s abandoned novel Romance in Marseille (circa 1929-1933), first published by Penguin Classics in February 2020, has been praised as a new-old text that transcends historical boundaries, resonating with…
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Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Claude McKay’s The White City, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger PublishingA AcentsAcentsa A-Acentsa Acentss Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and…
Reprint. Originally published: New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1922.
In his 1918 autobiographical essay, "A Negro Poet Writes," Claude McKay (1889-1948), reveals much about the wellspring of his poetry.
"I am a black man, born in Jamaica, B.W.I., and…
A classic poetry collection with the main focus based on the police force of McKay’s time, including his famous poem If We Must Die .
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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The story of Bita Plant who is adopted and sent to England from Jamaica. She returns to her home village of Banana Bottom, seven years later, a sophisticated English lady…
PREFACE it but I do not regret my experiences. If I had enemies whom I hated, I also had close filends whom I loved. One word in conclusion. As constituted…
First published in 1937 in the US by Lee Furman, Inc. This edition based on original cover and text.
A Jamaican-born writer describes his experiences traveling throughout the world following…
A novel that gives voice to the alienation and frustration of urban blacks during an era when Harlem was in vogue
You tas'e petater an’ you say it sweet, / But you no know how hard we wuk fe it. In his debut collection, the first published in Jamaican Patois, Claude…
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"There is an abundant humor to this book and pathos; there is melodrama and the quiet charm of introspective analysis, and above all there is entertainment."--Saturday Review
A novel of…
From one of the most significant figures of the Harlem Renaissance comes a narrative defining book chronicling his life from Jamaica to New York City
Claude McKay's long odyssey from…
Lincoln Agrippa Daily, known on the 1920s Marseilles waterfront as ‘Banjo,’ prowls the rough waterfront bistros with his drifter friends drinking, looking for women, playing music, fighting, loving, and talking–about…
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
Written in the late 1940s but unpublished till now, this superb portrayal of Black life during the Great Depression and the New Deal is virtually a sequel to the classic…
Purushothaman Sakthi
Comparative literature is a liberating and humanizing force on literature itself by breaking the boundaries and leading ultimately to a realization of the oneness of humanity. Research pertaining to any…
Victoria Schneider
Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,3, University of Potsdam, course: African American Literature, language: English, abstract: Introduction At…
Wayne F. Cooper
Although recognised today as one of the genuine pioneers of black literature in this century, Claude McKay (1890-1948) died penniless and almost forgotten in a Chicago hospital. In this masterly…
A Study Guide for Claude McKay’s The Tropics in New York, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study…
Emmanuel E. Egar
In times of political or social uncertainties the poet usually takes on the mantle of prophet, priest, or seer. He becomes not just the custodian of justice, but also the…
Kotti Sree Ramesh,Nirupa Rani Kandula
Explores the life and works of Claude McKay, framed within his cross-cultural experiences. This work also considers how a subject dwells in limbo between native and adopted cultures, and how…
Tatiana A. Tagirova-Daley
Claude McKay’s Liberating Narrative
Containing more than three hundred poems, this collection showcases the range and dynamism of Claude McKay (1889-1948), the Jamaican-born poet whose life and poetry were marked by restless travel and…
Spring in New Hampshire and Other Poems (1920) is a poetry collection by Claude McKay. Published toward the beginning of the Harlem Renaissance, Spring in New Hampshire and Other Poems…
