Letters in exile : transnational journeys of a Harlem renaissance writer / Claude McKay ; edited by Brooks E Hefner and Gary Edward Hocomb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McKay, Claude, 1890-1948, author.

Contributor:

Hefner, Brooks E., editor.

Holcomb, Gary Edward, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

McKay, Claude, 1890-1948--Correspondence.

McKay, Claude.

Genre:

Personal correspondence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 484 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, 2025.

Summary:

"Brooks E. Hefner and Gary Edward Holcomb bring together two decades of McKay's never-before-published dispatches from the road with correspondents including W. E. B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Alain Locke, Max Eastman, and Louise Bryant. With wit, wisdom, insight, and sometimes irascible temper, McKay describes how he endured harassment from British authorities in London and worked alongside Leon Trotsky and Alexander Kerensky in Bolshevik Moscow. He reflects on Paris's Lost Generation, immerses himself in the Marseille dockers' noir subculture, and observes French colonialism in Morocco. Providing a new perspective on a unique figure of American modernism, this collection reveals McKay gossiping, cajoling, and confiding as he engages in spirited debates and challenges the political and artistic questions of the day."--Provided by the publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

A Note on the Text

Abbreviations for the Archival Locations of McKay's Correspondence

Introduction

Correspondence

Chronology of McKay's Published Works

Glossary of Names

Gallery follows page.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

030028599X

9780300285994

OCLC:

1532521558