The Poetry of Claude McKay (Magill’s Choice: American Ethnic Writers)
At a glance:
- Author: Claude McKay
- First Published: 1912
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Discrimination, Freedom, Memory, Racism, Race, Biracial people, Nature, Harlem Renaissance, Catholics or Catholic Church, Jamaica or Jamaicans
In the early 1900’s, two Jamaicans, almost exact contemporaries, arrived in New York and influenced the course of African American life: in 1916, Marcus Garvey, who organized the Universal Negro Improvement Association; and in 1914, Claude McKay, one of the main inspirers of the Harlem Renaissance, the 1920’s cultural development of the arts and literature that, though it lasted for only a decade, permanently influenced the course of black self-expression in the United States. Both men died in relative obscurity after their fame had diminished; Garvey’s reputation has since...
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