Claude McKay
Subtitle: rebel sojourner in the Harlem Renaissance : a biography
By: Wayne F. Cooper.
Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
Publisher: Schocken Books; Distributed by Pantheon Books
Published: 1990
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 441
ISBN-13: 9780805209754
Subjects: McKay, Claude, 1890-1948.; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.; Authors, Jamaican -- 20th century -- Biography.; Jamaican Americans -- Intellectual life.; African American authors -- Biography.; Harlem Renaissance.; African American arts.; Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 375-429).
Reprint. Originally published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c1987.
Table of contents: title: The Jamaican family background; title: The Jamaican poetry as autobiography : Claude McKay in 1912; title: The early American years, 1912-1919; title: McKay in England, 1919-1921; title: With the Liberator, 1921-1922; title: The journey to Russia, 1922-1923; title: The expatriate years, 1923-1925 : "color scheme"; title: The expatriate years, 1925-1929 : Home to Harlem and Banjo; title: The expatriate years, 1929-1934 : Gingertown and Banana Bottom; title: The search for self-definition, 1934-1937 : A Long Way from Home; title: Looking forward : the search for community, 1937-1940; title: Right turn to Catholicism, 1940-1948