Home to Harlem
$35.67
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
11 March 2025
Summary
Claude McKay’s first novel, Home to Harlem, was published in 1928 during the height of the Harlem Renaissance. McKay portrays Harlem post-WWI through two Black migrants to New York: Jake, a Southern-born African American longshoreman who deserts the U.S. army and returns to his home in Harlem; and Ray, an educated Haitian immigrant. With his innovative use of Black dialects, McKay portrays a complex world of Black people, both native-born and immigrant, who navigate a dynamic society…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143138587 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143138588 |
| Author: | Claude McKay, Belinda Edmondson |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 11 March 2025 |
| Weight: | 176g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 128mm x 197mm |
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Claude McKay
Claude McKay (1889-1948)
Claude McKay, born Festus Claudius McKay, is widely regarded as one of the most important literary and political writers of the interwar period and the Harlem Renaissance. Born in Jamaica, he moved to the United States in 1912 to study at the Tuskegee Institute.
In 1928, he published his most famous novel, Home to Harlem, which won the Harmon Gold Award for Literature. His other published works include:
- Novels: Banjo and Banana Bottom
- Short story collection: Gingertown
- Autobiographical books: A Long Way from Home and My Green Hills of Jamaica
- Nonfiction: Harlem: Negro Metropolis
His Selected Poems was published posthumously. In 1977, he was named the national poet of Jamaica.
In 2009, his lost manuscript for the 1930s novel Amiable with Big Teeth was discovered among the archived papers of Samuel Roth at Columbia University. It was published for the first time in 2017 by Penguin Classics. Romance in Marseille was published in 2020 by Penguin Classics.
Belinda Edmondson
Belinda Edmondson is Distinguished Professor in the departments of English and Africana studies at Rutgers University-Newark. She is the winner of MLA’s first annual Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for African Studies in 2023. She is the author of several books on Caribbean literature and has won numerous grants and fellowships for her research.
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