A Long Way from HomeRutgers University Press, 2007 - 270 pagina's 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. |
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A Great Editor | 9 |
Other Editors | 26 |
White Friends | 33 |
Another White Friend | 40 |
ENGLISH INNING | 49 |
Adventuring in Search of George Bernard Shaw | 51 |
Pugilist vs Poet | 56 |
A Job in London | 61 |
The Dominant Urge | 121 |
An Individual Triumph | 131 |
The Pride and Pomp of Proletarian Power | 135 |
Literary Interest | 144 |
Social Interest | 149 |
A Great Celebration | 159 |
Regarding Radical Criticism | 174 |
THE CYNICAL CONTINENT | 181 |
Regarding Reactionary Criticism | 71 |
NEW YORK HORIZON | 77 |
Back in Harlem | 79 |
A Brown Dove Cooing | 94 |
A Look at H G Wells | 98 |
He Who Gets Slapped | 104 |
Harlem Shadows | 116 |
THE MAGIC PILGRIMAGE | 119 |
Berlin and Paris | 183 |
Friends in France | 195 |
Cinema Studio | 209 |
When a Negro Goes Native | 227 |
The New Negro in Paris | 235 |
Hail and Farewell to Morocco | 248 |