Claude McKay (Critical Survey of Poetry)
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Even though he is probably best known as a poet, Claude McKay’s verse makes up a relatively small portion of his literary output. While his novels, Home to Harlem (1928), Banjo (1929), and Banana Bottom (1933), do not place him at the forefront of American novelists, they were remarkable at the time for their frankness and slice-of-life realism. Home to Harlem was the first best-selling novel of the Harlem Renaissance, yet it was condemned by the majority of black critics, who felt that the black American art and literature...
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