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A long way from home / Claude McKay ; introduction by St. Clair Drake.
Van Pelt Library PS3525.A24785 A3 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McKay, Claude, 1890-1948, author.
- Drake, St. Clair, author of introduction.
- Series:
- The American negro, his history and literature
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- McKay, Claude, 1890-1948.
- McKay, Claude.
- Authors, American--20th century--Biography.
- Authors, American.
- Authors, Jamaican--20th century--Biography.
- Authors, Jamaican.
- Jamaican Americans--Intellectual life.
- Jamaican Americans.
- African American authors--Biography.
- African American authors.
- Jamaican Americans--Biography.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 354 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First ECCO Paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, Arno Press, 1969 [©1937]
- New York, NY : ECCO, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2023.
- Summary:
- In this autobiography, Claude McKay chronicles his long odyssey from Jamaica to Harlem, Europe, North Africa, Russia, and back to America, meeting some of the most militant writers to emerge from the New Negro movement following World War I. From the intellectual circles of Harlem and Greenwich Village to the docks of Mareilles to the inner circles of post-revolutionary Russia, McKay's contact with such figures as Frank Harris, Max Eastman, George Bernard Shaw, W.E.B. Du Bois, James Weldon Johnson, Charlie Chaplin, H.G. Wells, Sinclair Lewis, Leon Trotsky, and Karl Radek served to advance views that would be widely accepted in the 1960s: Black Pride, self-determination, and the necessity for Black culture to define itself.
- ISBN:
- 9780063357723
- 0063357720
- OCLC:
- 1401015627
- Publisher Number:
- 99994769724
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