This provocative exchange, one of many in a novel by the Jamaican-American writer Claude McKay ... had petered out with the onset of the Great Depression. “It’s a really remarkable book ...

In The Deep End: The Literary Scene in the Great ... by the Depression.” Among those nurtured by the FWP were Ralph Ellison, who went on to achieve fame with Invisible Man, Claude McKay, a ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Claude ... with McKay’s tender portrayal of family love, makes it a touching meditation on life and death.

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 ...

In recent years Claude McKay (1889-1948), one of the most gifted ... “In the main ward of the great hospital Lafala lay like a sawed-off stump and pondered the loss of his legs.” ...