Home to Harlem by Claude McKay - ISBN: 9780143138587
Paperback
Harlem’s vibrant nightlife and Black experience, a controversial literary landmark.

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  • Paperback

    336 pages

  • Release Date

    11 March 2025

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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 …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780143138587
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:197mm x 128mm x 18mm
About The Author

Claude McKay

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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