books by Claude McKAY
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Claude McKAY
Selected Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)
Claude McKay
Dover Publications
, 1999
A diverse collection by a gifted poet
"Selected Poems," by Claude McKay, is a wonderful volume by this noteworthy writer. This Dover edition, which is edited by Joan R. Sherman, includes a bibliography of work by McKay as well as an index of the poems in the book. Sherman's introduction discusses the life ...
Banjo (Harvest Book)
Claude McKay
Harvest Books
, 1970
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12 INCH FIGURINES: Soldiers of the Second World War (Histoire & Collections: Action Figures and Toys)
Raymond Giuliani
, Claude Messmer, ...
Histoire and Collections
, 2004
Excellent customizing guide--though text requires patience
I reluctantly gave this book 4 stars because of the English translation. Want to turn your GI Joe into a museum piece? The Fort Lewis (Washington state) Military Museum has many 12-inch figures on display to represent soldiers of different eras. "Second World War ...
Complete Poems (American Poetry Recovery)
Claude McKay
University of Illinois Press
, 2008
McKay's Complete Poems: A Historic Event
Most readers will probably be aware of McKay's 1919 poem "If We Must Die," accurately recognized in anthologies of African American literature as the first openly defiant black insurgent lyric during the racial violence of the post-Great War period. Edited and ...
A Long Way from Home (Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the Americas)
Claude McKay
Rutgers
, 2007
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 ...
Home To Harlem (Northeastern Library of Black Literature)
Claude McKay
Northeastern
, 1987
I Loved This Controversial Work of Art
Written in 1928, Claude McKay's novel, Home to Harlem was created as an answer to its white counterpart, Ni***r Harlem (not to offend, but it's the real title of the book), written by Carl Van Vechten. Both books feature the booze, drugs, sex and prostitution of the ...
Banana Bottom (Harvest Book, Hb 273)
Claude McKay
Harvest Books
, 1974
Brought black West Indian literature to bear on world scale
This book, while not a great work of literature, is notable for its ground breaking role in bringing black West-Indian writing to the attention of literati across the world. The plot is somewhat forced, with deus ex machina resolutions and an often painfully obvious ...
Long Way From Home
Claude McKay
Harvest Books
, 1970
McKay's account of his long odyssey from Jamaica to Harlem and then on to France, Britain, North Africa, Russia, and finally back to America. As well as depicting his own experiences, the author describes his encounters with such notable personalities as Charlie Chaplin, George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, Leon Trotsky, W. E. B. Du Bois, Isadora ...
Constab Ballads
Claude Mckay
Ferrero Press
, 2008
PREFACE it but I do not regret my experiences. If I had enemies whom I hated, I also had close filends whom I loved. One word in conclusion. As constituted by the euthorities the Force is admirable, md it only remains for the men themselves, and especially the sub-officers, to make it what it should be, a harmonious band of brothers. CONTENTS DE ...
Harlem Glory: A Fragment Of Aframerican Life
Claude McKAY
Charles H Kerr
, 1990
Written in the late 1940s but unpublished till now, this superb portrayal of Black life during the Great Depression and the New Deal is virtually a sequel to the classic Home to Harlem. Mckay's vivid, warm evocations of the omnipresent numbers racket, all-night jazz parties and the whole exuberant and cacophonous clash of social movements and ...
A Fierce Hatred of Injustice: Claude McKay's Jamaican Poetry of Rebellion
Winston James
, Claude McKay
Verso
, 2001
Claude McKay remains one of the most influential intellectuals of the African Diaspora. Best remembered for his extraordinary poetry, his achievement in verse has been widely analyzed and praised. Yet in the welter of discussion about McKay, little has been said about his early writing in Jamaican. Two collections from the period, Songs of Jamaica ...
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