Long Way from Home.
Title:
Long Way from Home.
Author:
McKay, Claude.
ISBN:
9780813542638
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (312 pages)
Series:
MELA (Multi-ethnic Literatures of the Americas)
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology -- Introduction -- A Note on the Text -- A Long Way from Home -- Contents -- Part One: American Beginning -- Chapter 1: A Great Editor -- Chapter 2: Other Editors -- Chapter 3: White Friends -- Chapter 4: Another White Friend -- Part Two: English Inning -- Chapter 5: Adventuring in Search of George Bernard Shaw -- Chapter 6: Pugilist vs. Poet -- Chapter 7: A Job in London -- Chapter 8: Regarding Reactionary Criticism -- Part Three: New York Horizon -- Chapter 9: Back in Harlem -- Chapter 10: A Brown Dove Cooing -- Chapter 11: A Look at H. G.Wells -- Chapter 12: "He Who Gets Slapped" -- Chapter 13: "Harlem Shadows" -- Part Four: The Magic Pilgrimage -- Chapter 14: The Dominant Urge -- Chapter 15: An Individual Triumph -- Chapter 16: The Pride and Pomp of Proletarian Power -- Chapter 17: Literary Interest -- Chapter 18: Social Interest -- Chapter 19: A Great Celebration -- Chapter 20: Regarding Radical Criticism -- Part Five: The Cynical Continent -- Chapter 21: Berlin and Paris -- Chapter 22: Friends in France -- Chapter 23: Frank Harris in France -- Chapter 24: Cinema Studio -- Chapter 25: Marseilles Motley -- Part Six: The Idylls of Africa -- Chapter 26: When a Negro Goes Native -- Chapter 27: The New Negro in Paris -- Chapter 28: Hail and Farewell to Morocco -- Chapter 29: On Belonging to a Minority Group -- About the Editor.
Abstract:
Claude McKay (1889-1948) was one of the most prolific and sophisticated African American writers of the early twentieth century. A Jamaican-born author of poetry, short stories, novels, and nonfiction, McKay has often been associated with the "New Negro" or Harlem Renaissance, a movement of African American art, culture, and intellectualism between World War I and the Great Depression. But his relationship to the movement was complex. Literally absent from Harlem during that period, he devoted most of his time to traveling through Europe, Russia, and Africa during the 1920s and 1930s. His active participation in Communist groups and the radical Left also encouraged certain opinions on race and class that strained his relationship to the Harlem Renaissance and its black intelligentsia. In his 1937 autobiography, A Long Way from Home, McKay explains what it means to be a black "rebel sojourner" and presents one of the first unflattering, yet informative, exposés of the Harlem Renaissance. Reprinted here with a critical introduction by Gene Andrew Jarrett, this book will challenge readers to rethink McKay's articulation of identity, art, race, and politics and situate these topics in terms of his oeuvre and his literary contemporaries between the world wars.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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