Claude McKay
Subtitle: a black poet's struggle for identity
By: Tyrone Tillery.
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Amherst
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
Subjects: McKay, Claude, 1890-1948.; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.; Authors, Jamaican -- 20th century -- Biography.; Jamaican Americans -- Intellectual life.; Identity (Psychology) in literature.; African Americans in literature.
Genres: Biography.
Description: Presents a biography of Jamaican poet Claude McKay, and discusses his life in the context of the struggles of black intellectuals during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 30s.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-230) and index.