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Overview

Revisit the debut novel of one of the “New Negroes” of the Harlem Renaissance filled with Niggerati sensibilities.

Disgruntled by the treatment of Black soldiers in the military, Jake Brown heads to Harlem—the Mecca of Black creativity—to rebuild his life anew. Upon arriving, he discovers that Harlem isn’t exactly the paradise of racial uplift and unity that one might read about in books; but then again, it’s a far cry from the volatile streets of London and the isolation faced abroad. Meeting new faces and taking up odd jobs, Jake sets out on a journey to discover who he is as a Black man in the world and where he can truly belong.Home to Harlem (1928) is the bestselling, award-winning novel of Jamaican-American poet, Claude McKay that explores the spirit of the uprooted Black vagabond within Harlem’s legendary nightlife.

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Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780593512661
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 02/11/2025
Sold by: Penguin Group
Format: eBook
Pages: 336

About the Author

Claude McKay (1889-1948), born Festus Claudius McKay, is widely regarded as one of the most important literary and political writers of the interwar period and the Harlem Renaissance. Born in Jamaica, he moved to the United States in 1912 to study at the Tuskegee Institute. In 1928, he published his most famous novel, Home to Harlem, which won the Harmon Gold Award for Literature. He also published two other novels Banjo and Banana Bottom, as well as a collection of short stories, Gingertown, two autobiographical books, A Long Way from Home and My Green Hills of Jamaica, and a work of nonfiction, Harlem: Negro Metropolis. His Selected Poems was published posthumously, and in 1977 he was named the national poet of Jamaica. In 2009, his lost manuscript for the 1930s novel Amiable with Big Teeth was discovered among the archived papers of Samuel Roth at Columbia University, and was published for the first time in 2017 by Penguin Classics. Romance in Marseille was published in 2020 by Penguin Classics. 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.

Table of Contents

First Part
I Going Back Home
II Arrival 
III Zeddy 
IV Congo Rose 
V On the Job Again 
VI Myrtle Avenue 
VII Zeddy’s Rise and Fall 
VIII The Raid of the Baltimore 
IX Jake Makes a Move 

Second Part
X The Railroad 
XI Snowstorm in Pittsburgh 
XII The Treeing of the Chef 
XIII One Night in Philly 
XIV Interlude 
XV Relapse 
XVI A Practical Prank 
XVII He Also Loved 
XVIII A Farewell Feed 

Third Part
XIX Spring in Harlem 
XX Felice 
XXI The Gift That Billy Gave 
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