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Overview
Claude McKay’s long odyssey from Jamaica to Harlem, Europe, North Africa, Russia, and back to America is chronicled in this autobiography of the most militant writers to emerge from the New Negro movement following World War I. Whether in the intellectual circles of Harlem and Greenwich Village, the docks of Marseilles, or the inner circles of post-revolutionary Russia, McKay’s contact with such figures as Frank Harris, Max Eastman, George Bernard Shaw, W.E.B Dubois, James Weldon Johnson, Charles Chaplin, H.G Wells, Sinclair Lewis, Trotsky, and Radek all served to advance those views which would be so widely accepted in the 1960—Black Pride, self-determination, and the necessity for Black culture to define itself.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780063357723 |
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Publisher: | HarperCollins |
Publication date: | 08/22/2023 |
Pages: | 384 |
Product dimensions: | 5.31(w) x 8.00(h) x (d) |
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Table of Contents
Introduction | ix | |
Part 1 | American Beginning | |
Chapter I | A Great Editor | 3 |
Chapter II | Other Editors | 26 |
Chapter III | White Friends | 35 |
Chapter IV | Another White Friend | 45 |
Part 2 | English Inning | |
Chapter V | Adventuring in Search of George Bernard Shaw | 59 |
Chapter VI | Pugilist Vs. Poet | 66 |
Chapter VII | A Job in London | 73 |
Chapter VIII | Regarding Reactionary Criticism | 86 |
Part 3 | New York Horizon | |
Chapter IX | Back in Harlem | 95 |
Chapter X | A Brown Dove Cooing | 116 |
Chapter XI | A Look at H. G. Wells | 121 |
Chapter XII | "He Who Gets Slapped" | 130 |
Chapter XIII | "Harlem Shadows" | 147 |
Part 4 | The Magic Pilgrimage | |
Chapter XIV | The Dominant Urge | 153 |
Chapter XV | An Individual Triumph | 167 |
Chapter XVI | The Pride and Pomp of Proletarian Power | 172 |
Chapter XVII | Literary Interest | 185 |
Chapter XVIII | Social Interest | 191 |
Chapter XIX | A Great Celebration | 206 |
Chapter XX | Regarding Radical Criticism | 226 |
Part 5 | The Cynical Continent | |
Chapter XXI | Berlin and Paris | 237 |
Chapter XXII | Friends in France | 253 |
Chapter XXIII | Frank Harris in France | 265 |
Chapter XXIV | Cinema Studio | 272 |
Chapter XXV | Marseilles Motley | 277 |
Part 6 | The Idylls of Africa | |
Chapter XXVI | When a Negro Goes Native | 295 |
Chapter XXVII | The New Negro in Paris | 306 |
Chapter XXVIII | Hail and Farewell to Morocco | 324 |
Chapter XXIX | On Belonging to a Minority Group | 342 |