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 Jamaica to Harlem, Europe, North Africa, Russia, and back to America is chronicled in this autobiography of the most militant writers to emerge from the New Negro movement following World War I. Whether in the intellectual circles of Harlem and Greenwich Village, the docks of Marseilles, or the inner circles of post-revolutionary Russia, McKay's contact with such figures as Frank Harris, Max Eastman, George…mehr
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 Jamaica to Harlem, Europe, North Africa, Russia, and back to America is chronicled in this autobiography of the most militant writers to emerge from the New Negro movement following World War I. Whether in the intellectual circles of Harlem and Greenwich Village, the docks of Marseilles, or the inner circles of post-revolutionary Russia, McKay's contact with such figures as Frank Harris, Max Eastman, George Bernard Shaw, W.E.B Dubois, James Weldon Johnson, Charles Chaplin, H.G Wells, Sinclair Lewis, Trotsky, and Radek all served to advance those views which would be so widely accepted in the 1960?Black Pride, self-determination, and the necessity for Black culture to define itself.
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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