Letters in exile : transnational journeys of a Harlem renaissance writer

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Letters in exile : transnational journeys of a Harlem renaissance writer

(2025)

By: McKay, Claude, 1890-1948

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PUBLISHED

Yale Univ Pr [2025]
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2025]

DESCRIPTION

xiv, 484 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

ISBN/ISSN

9780300276473, 0300276478 :

LANGUAGE

English

NOTES

Includes index

"The Jamaican-born, queer author Claude McKay (1890-1948) was a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance. His 1919 poem "If We Must Die" expressed a revolutionary vision for militant Black protest art, while his novels, including Home to Harlem, Banjo, and Banana Bottom, described ordinary Black life in lyrical prose. Yet for all that McKay connected himself to Harlem, he was a restless world traveler who sought spiritual, artistic, and political sustenance in France, Spain, Moscow, and Morocco"--