Title: Romance in Marseille
Description: "Buried in the archive for almost ninety years, Claude McKay's Romance in Marseille traces the adventures of a rowdy troupe of dockworkers, prostitutes, and political organizers--collectively straight and queer, disabled and able-bodied, African, European, Caribbean, and American. Set largely in the culture-blending Vieux Port of Marseille at the height of the Jazz Age, the novel takes flight along with Lafala, an acutely disabled but abruptly wealthy West African sailor"--
Subjects: American literature, Fiction, african american, historical, France, fiction, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, african american & black, historical, Sailors, Fiction, Stevedores, Imperialism, Harbors, Sex workers, Sexual minorities, Gender expression, Nineteen twenties, People with disabilities