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A Legless Black Man Comes Into a Windfall in This Biting Satire
By Brent Hayes Edwards In January 1928, Claude McKay mailed an audacious letter to the director of the Compagnie Fabre, one of the oldest shipping lines in France. He asked the director to ...
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20 Essential Claude McKay Poems Everyone Should Read: A Deep Dive Into His Literary Legacy.
(ThyBlackMan.com) Claude McKay, one of the most influential figures in the Harlem Renaissance, left behind a rich collection ...
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A Book So Far Ahead of Its Time, It Took 87 Years to Find a Publisher
Claude McKay’s novel “Romance in Marseille” deals with queer love, postcolonialism and the legacy of slavery. It also complicates ideas about the Harlem Renaissance. By Talya Zax Claude ...
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'If We Must Die': 100 years after Red Summer, Claude McKay's poem resonates anew
From academic texts to The Atlantic, contemporary literature shows how McKay’s 1919 poem remains relevant, offering language to inspire courage in the face of racism. Director Ava DuVernay ...
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The Best New Novel Was Written 90 Years Ago
Our critics on great artists who might’ve been lost to the canon. Claude McKay’s Romance in Marseille is a modern masterpiece. Photo: Courtesy of Penguin Random House Did you know they’re ...
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Claude McKay abandoned ‘Romance in Marseille’ because it was too daring. He was just ahead of his time.
In recent years Claude McKay (1889-1948), one of the most gifted writers of the Harlem Renaissance, has been enjoying his own posthumous renaissance. In 2004 his “Complete Poems” appeared ...