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Claude McKay
Disgruntled by the treatment of Black soldiers in the military, Jake Brown is determined to find a place that he can call home and feel at ease with himself. Making…
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"Claude McKay's first novel, Home to Harlem, was published in 1928 during the height of the Harlem Renaissance. McKay portrays Harlem post-WWI, through Jake, an African American longshoreman who deserts…
First published in 1928, "Home to Harlem" is Claude McKay's classic portrayal of African American society in New York City after World War One, during the height of the Harlem…
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"This Dover edition, first published in 2024, is an unabridged republication of the work, originally published by Harper & Brothers, New York, in 1928."
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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…
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.
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…
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.
John Lok
Introduction Nowadays, business society is experiencing high technology stage. Can human apply AI technology to help businessmen to reduce cost. Any businessmen must hope to learn how to reduce business…
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…
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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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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Reprint. Originally published: New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1922.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1922 Edition.
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…
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe…
Harlem Shadows: The Poems of Claude McKay is a collection of poems written by Jamaican-American writer Claude McKay and originally published in 1922. The poems explore themes of race, identity…
Tyrone Tillery
Provides psychological insights into the Jamaican poet’s life in the US and examines the problems that confronted most black intellectuals during the Harlem renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s. This…
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 work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
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…
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…
A novel that gives voice to the alienation and frustration of urban blacks during an era when Harlem was in vogue
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 .
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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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…
An autobiography that explains what it means to be a black rebel sojourner and presents the exposes of the Harlem Renaissance. This book challenges readers to rethink the author’s articulation…
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…
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…
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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…
