Home to Harlem
$29.88
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
11 March 2025
Summary
Claude McKay’s first novel, Home to Harlem, was published in 1928 during the height of the Harlem Renaissance. McKay portrays Harlem post-WWI through two Black migrants to New York—Jake, a Southern-born African American longshoreman who deserts the U.S. army and returns to his home in Harlem; and Ray, an educated Haitian immigrant.
With his innovative use of Black dialects, McKay portrays a complex world of Black people, both native-born and immigrant, who navigate a dynamic …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143138587 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143138588 |
| Author: | Claude McKay, Belinda Edmondson |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 11 March 2025 |
| Weight: | 176g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 18mm |
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About The Author
Claude McKay
Belinda Edmondson is Distinguished Professor in the departments of English and Africana studies at Rutgers University-Newark. She is the winner of MLA’s first annual Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for African Studies in 2023. She is the author of several books on Caribbean literature and has won numerous grants and fellowships for her research.
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