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Claude McKay, Rebel Sojourner in the Harlem Renaissance - A Biography (Paperback, New edition)
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Claude McKay, Rebel Sojourner in the Harlem Renaissance - A Biography (Paperback, New edition)
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Cooper paints a meticulous and absorbing portrait of McKay's
restless artistic, intellectual, and political odyssey... The
definitive biography on McKay. - Choice Although recognised today
as one of the genuine pioneers of black literature in this century,
the author of If We Must Die, Home to Harlem, Banana Bottom, and A
Long Way from Home, among other works, Claude McKay (1890-1948)
died penniless and almost forgotten in a Chicago hospital. In this
masterly study, Wayne Cooper presents a fascinating, detailed
account of McKay's complex, chaotic, and frequently contradictory
life. In his poetry and fiction, as well as in his political and
social commentaries, McKay searched for a solid foundation for a
valid black identity among the working-class cultures of the West
Indies and the United States. He was an undeniably important
predecessor to such younger writers of the Harlem Renaissance as
Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen, and also to influential West
Indian and African writers such as C. L. R. James and Aime Cesaire.
Knowledge of his life adds important dimensions to our
understanding of American radicalism, the expatriates of the 1920s,
and American literature. ""Mr. Cooper's most original contribution
is his careful and perceptive analysis of McKay's nonfiction
writing, especially his social and political commentary, which
often contained 'prophetic statements' on a range of important
social, political, and historical issues."" - New York Times Book
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