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Home to Harlem, first novel by Claude McKay, published in 1928. In it and its sequel, Banjo, McKay attempted to capture the vitality of the black vagabonds of urban America and Europe. Jake Brown, the protagonist of Home to Harlem, deserts the U.S. Army during World War I and lives in London until.
18 de jun. de 2022 · Home to Harlem. by. McKay, Claude, 1890-1948. Publication date. 1987. Topics. African Americans -- Fiction, Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction. Publisher. Boston : Northeastern University Press.
While it lacks the fame of something like Their Eyes Were Watching God, Home to Harlem is a vital chronicle of the lives of low status blacks in the cultural Mecca of 1920s Harlem. McKay's protagonist, Jake, is, in some ways, the ideal representation of the common man of Harlem.
African American Poetry (1870-1928): A Digital Anthology. Claude McKay, "Home to Harlem" (full text of the novel) (1928) Note:Home to Harlem was published by Harper & Brothers in 1928; it entered the public domain on January 1, 2024. Below is a plain text rendering of the novel from an OCR scan of the first edition.
A Black American longshoreman struggles to feel at home after returning from service in WWI in this classic Harlem Renaissance novel. When America joins World War I...
Hace 5 días · A picaresque novel by Claude McKay, appeared in 1928, at the height of the Harlem Renaissance. It depicts the lower-class life and culture of Harlem, and the contrast between rural and urban black folk, through the eyes of Jake Brown and Ray, a Haitian waiter.
With sensual, often brutal accuracy, Claude McKay traces the parallel paths of two very different young men struggling to find their way through the suspicion...
