McKay's account of his long odyssey from Jamaica to Harlem and then on to France, Britain, North Africa, Russia, and finally back to America. As well as depicting his own experiences, the author describes his encounters with such notable personalities as Charlie Chaplin, George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, Leon Trotsky, W. E. B. Du Bois, Isadora Duncan, Paul Robeson, and Sinclair Lewis.
McKay's account of his long odyssey from Jamaica to Harlem and then on to France, Britain, North Africa, Russia, and finally back to America. As well as depicting his own experiences, the author describes his encounters with such notable personalities as Charlie Chaplin, George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, Leon Trotsky, W. E. B. Du Bois, Isadora Duncan, Paul Robeson, and Sinclair Lewis.
Claude McKay (1889-1948), born Festus Claudius McKay, is widely regarded as one of the most important literary and political writers of the interwar period and the Harlem Renaissance. Born in Jamaica, he moved to the U.S. in 1912 to study at the Tuskegee Institute. In 1928, he published his most famous novel, Home to Harlem, which won the Harmon Gold Award for Literature. He also published two other novels, Banjo and Banana Bottom, as well as a collection of short stories, Gingertown, two autobiographical books, A Long Way from Home and My Green Hills of Jamaica, and a work of nonfiction, Harlem: Negro Metropolis. His Selected Poems was published posthumously, and in 1977 he was named the national poet of Jamaica.
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Contents Acknowledgement ix Chronology xi Introduction xvii A Note on the Text xxxix Part One: American Beginning 1 A Great Editor 9 2 Other Editors 26 3 White Friends 33 4 Another White Friend 40 Part Two: English Inning 5 Adventuring in Search of George Bernard Show 51 6 Pugilist vs. Poet 56 7 A Job in London 61 8 Regarding Reactionary Criticism 71 Part Three: New York Horizon 9 Back in Harlem 79 10 A Brown Dove Cooing 94 11 A Look at H. G. Wells 12 "He Who Gets Slapped" 104 13 "Harlem Shadows" 116 Part Four: The Magic Pilgrimage 14 The Dominant Urge 121 15 An Individual Triumph 131 16 The Pride and Pomp of Proletarian Power 135 17 Literary Interest 144 18 Social Interest 149 19 A Great Celebration 159 20 Regarding Radical Criticism 174 Part Five: The Cynical Continent 21 Berlin and Paris 183 22 Friends in France 195 23 Frank Harris in France 204 24 Cinema Studio 209 25 Marseilles Motley 213 Part Six: The Idylls of Africa 26 When a Negro Goes Native 227 27 The New Negro in Paris 235 28 Hail and Farewell in Morocco 248 29 On Belonging to a Minority Group 261
Contents Acknowledgement ix Chronology xi Introduction xvii A Note on the Text xxxix Part One: American Beginning 1 A Great Editor 9 2 Other Editors 26 3 White Friends 33 4 Another White Friend 40 Part Two: English Inning 5 Adventuring in Search of George Bernard Show 51 6 Pugilist vs. Poet 56 7 A Job in London 61 8 Regarding Reactionary Criticism 71 Part Three: New York Horizon 9 Back in Harlem 79 10 A Brown Dove Cooing 94 11 A Look at H. G. Wells 12 "He Who Gets Slapped" 104 13 "Harlem Shadows" 116 Part Four: The Magic Pilgrimage 14 The Dominant Urge 121 15 An Individual Triumph 131 16 The Pride and Pomp of Proletarian Power 135 17 Literary Interest 144 18 Social Interest 149 19 A Great Celebration 159 20 Regarding Radical Criticism 174 Part Five: The Cynical Continent 21 Berlin and Paris 183 22 Friends in France 195 23 Frank Harris in France 204 24 Cinema Studio 209 25 Marseilles Motley 213 Part Six: The Idylls of Africa 26 When a Negro Goes Native 227 27 The New Negro in Paris 235 28 Hail and Farewell in Morocco 248 29 On Belonging to a Minority Group 261
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