Festus Claudius McKay

**Festus Claudius McKay** (natus *Festus Claude McKay,* 15 Septembris 1889&thinsp;; infarctu cordis mortuus 22 Maii 1948) fuit scriptor et poeta Iamaicanus-Americanus et auctor magni momenti in Renascentia Harlemensi. Quattuor scripsit mythistorias: *Home to Harlem* (1928), liber optime vendibilis qui Praemium rebus gestis distinctis inter Nigros Gulielmi E. Harmon litteris dicatum abstulit; *Banjo* (1929); *Banana Bottom* (1933); et *Amiable With Big Teeth: A Novel of the Love Affair between the Communists and the Poor Black Sheep of Harlem* (manuscriptum, 1941, nondum editum). McKay etiam protulit congeries poematum; congeriem fabularum brevium (*Gingertown,* 1932); duos libros autobiographicos, *A Long Way from Home* (1937) et *My Green Hills of Jamaica* (post mortem editum); et tractatum sociohistoricum, *Harlem: Negro Metropolis* (1940). *Harlem Shadows,* congeries poematum, fuit inter primos libros per Renascentiam Harlemensem editos. Liber *Selected Poems* post mortem anno 1953 editus est.

## Opera selecta
### Congeries poematum
**Songs of Jamaica* (1912)
**Constab Ballads* (1912)
**Spring in New Hampshire and Other Poems* (1920)
**Harlem Shadows *(1922)
**The Selected Poems of Claude McKay* (1953)
**America* (1921)

### Fictio
**Home to Harlem* (1928)
**Banjo* (1929)
**Banana Bottom* (1933)
**Gingertown* (1932)

### Non fictio
**A Long Way from Home* (1937)
**My Green Hills of Jamaica* (1979)
**Harlem: Negro Metropolis* (1940)

## Bibliographia
;Generalia
*Cooper, Wayne F. 1964. Claude McKay and the New Negro of the 1920's. *Phylon* 25(3)297–306.
*Cooper, Wayne F. 1987. *Claude McKay: Rebel Sojourner in the Harlem Renaissance: A Biography.* Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 0807113107.
*Giles, James Richard. 1086. *Claude McKay.* Bostoniae: Twayne Publishers. ISBN 0805771719.
*James, Winston. 2001. ''A Fierce Hatred of Injustice: Claude McKay's Jamaica and His Poetry of Rebellion.'' Londinii: Verso. ISBN 9781859847404.
*James, Winston. 2003. Becoming the People's Poet: Claude McKay's Jamaican Years, 1889–1912. *Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism* 13 (Martio):17–45.
*Long, Richard A. 1985. *Afro-American Writing: An Anthology of Prose and Poetry.* Penn State Press. ISBN 0271003766.
*Tillery, Tyrone. 1992. ''Claude McKay: A Black Poet's Struggle for Identity.* Amherstiae: University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 0870237624. 

;Commentarii in *Chicago Defender*
*1921. Claude McKay, African Poet, Made Co-Editor. *The Chicago Defender,* editio nationalis, 2 Aprilis. 
*1922. McKay Going to Russia. *The Chicago Defender,* ed. nationalis, 19 Augusti.
*1928. Claude McKay, Noted Poet, Author, Once Idol of Russia, Dies Here. *The Chicago Defender*, 29 Maii.
*Johnson, James Weldon. 1928. Claude McKay. *The Chicago Defender,'' ed. nationalis, 3 Martii 3.

## Notae

## Nexus externi
*Biographia et poemata, www.poetry foundation.org (Poetry Foundation)
*Prospectus Congeriei Claudii McKay in Bibliotheca Librorum et Manuscriptorum Rarorum Beineckeensi Universitatis Yalensis, drs.library.yale.edu
*Umbrae Harlemenses: Traditio Electronica, www.harlemshadows.org

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