Long Way From Home: The Autobiography of a Militant Harlem Renaissance Writer from Jamaica to New York City - Softcover

Mckay, Claude

 
9780156531450: Long Way From Home: The Autobiography of a Militant Harlem Renaissance Writer from Jamaica to New York City
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ISBN 10: 0156531453 ISBN 13: 9780156531450
Verlag: Houghton Mifflin, 2009

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McKay's account of his long odyssey from Jamaica to Harlem and then on to France, Britain, North Africa, Russia, and finally back to America. As well as depicting his own experiences, the author describes his encounters with such notable personalities as Charlie Chaplin, George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, Leon Trotsky, W. E. B. Du Bois, Isadora Duncan, Paul Robeson, and Sinclair Lewis.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Claude McKay was a writer and poet. Born in Jamaica in 1889 to peasant farmers, he wrote poetry and fiction about Black life in Jamaica and America. His books include Harlem Shadows (1922); Constab Ballads (1912); and Songs of Jamaica (1912), as well as a number of novels and short-story collections. A key figure in the Harlem Renaissance, he was also involved in many social causes, particularly in the fight for racial justice. He died in Chicago in 1948.

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Verlag
Houghton Mifflin
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0156531453
ISBN 13 
9780156531450
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Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
384
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