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Claude McKay (1889-1948) was one of the most prolific and sophisticated African American writers of the early twentieth century. A Jamaican-born author of poetry, short stories, novels, and nonfiction, McKay has often been associated with the "New Negro" or Harlem Renaissance, a movement of African American art, culture, and intellectualism between World War I and the Great Depression. But his relationship to the movement was complex. Literally absent from Harlem during that period, he devoted most of his time to traveling through Europe, Russia, and Africa during the 1920s and 1930s. His active participation in Communist groups and the radical Left also encouraged certain opinions on race and class that strained his relationship to the Harlem Renaissance and its black intelligentsia. In his 1937 autobiography, A Long Way from Home, McKay explains what it means to be a black "rebel sojourner" and presents one of the first unflattering, yet informative, exposÉs of the Harlem Renaissance. Reprinted here with a critical introduction by Gene Andrew Jarrett, this book will challenge readers to rethink McKay's articulation of identity, art, race, and politics and situate these topics in terms of his oeuvre and his literary contemporaries between the world wars.
Contents
Contents
Acknowledgement ix
Chronology xi
Introduction xvii
A Note on the Text xxxix
Part One: American Beginning
1 A Great Editor 9
2 Other Editors 26
3 White Friends 33
4 Another White Friend 40
Part Two: English Inning
5 Adventuring in Search of George Bernard Show 51
6 Pugilist vs. Poet 56
7 A Job in London 61
8 Regarding Reactionary Criticism 71
Part Three: New York Horizon
9 Back in Harlem 79
10 A Brown Dove Cooing 94
11 A Look at H. G. Wells
12 "He Who Gets Slapped" 104
13 "Harlem Shadows" 116
Part Four: The Magic Pilgrimage
14 The Dominant Urge 121
15 An Individual Triumph 131
16 The Pride and Pomp of Proletarian Power 135
17 Literary Interest 144
18 Social Interest 149
19 A Great Celebration 159
20 Regarding Radical Criticism 174
Part Five: The Cynical Continent
21 Berlin and Paris 183
22 Friends in France 195
23 Frank Harris in France 204
24 Cinema Studio 209
25 Marseilles Motley 213
Part Six: The Idylls of Africa
26 When a Negro Goes Native 227
27 The New Negro in Paris 235
28 Hail and Farewell in Morocco 248
29 On Belonging to a Minority Group 261
