{"product_id":"letters-in-exile-transnational-journeys-of-a-harlem-renaissance-writer-hardcover","title":"Letters in Exile: Transnational Journeys of a Harlem Renaissance Writer - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eClaude McKay\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eBrooks E. Hefner\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eGary Edward Holcomb\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA collection of private correspondence from one of the Harlem Renaissance's brightest and most radical voices\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The Jamaican-born, queer author Claude McKay (1890-1948) was a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance. His 1919 poem \"If We Must Die\" expressed a revolutionary vision for militant Black protest art, while his novels, including \u003ci\u003eHome to Harlem\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBanjo\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBanana Bottom\u003c\/i\u003e, described ordinary Black life in lyrical prose. Yet for all that McKay connected himself to Harlem, he was a restless world traveler who sought spiritual, artistic, and political sustenance in France, Spain, Moscow, and Morocco. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Brooks E. Hefner and Gary Edward Holcomb bring together two decades of McKay's never-before-published dispatches from the road with correspondents including W. E. B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Alain Locke, Max Eastman, and Louise Bryant. With wit, wisdom, insight, and sometimes irascible temper, McKay describes how he endured harassment from British authorities in London and worked alongside Leon Trotsky and Alexander Kerensky in Bolshevik Moscow. He reflects on Paris's Lost Generation, immerses himself in the Marseille dockers' noir subculture, and observes French colonialism in Morocco. Providing a new perspective on a unique figure of American modernism, this collection reveals McKay gossiping, cajoling, and confiding as he engages in spirited debates and challenges the political and artistic questions of the day.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eClaude McKay\u003c\/b\u003e (1890-1948) was a luminary of the Harlem Renaissance and a major figure in Black transnational, Black queer, and Black Marxist history. His books include the poetry collection \u003ci\u003eHarlem Shadows\u003c\/i\u003e and the novels \u003ci\u003eHome to Harlem\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBanjo\u003c\/i\u003e and the posthumously published \u003ci\u003eAmiable with Big Teeth\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRomance in Marseille\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eBrooks E. Hefner\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of English at James Madison University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Word on the Streets: The American Language of Vernacular Modernism\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBlack Pulp: Genre Fiction in the Shadow of Jim Crow\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Charlottesville, VA. \u003cb\u003eGary Edward Holcomb\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of African American literature at Ohio University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eClaude McKay, Code Name Sasha: Queer Black Marxism and the Harlem Renaissance\u003c\/i\u003e and coeditor of McKay's \u003ci\u003eRomance in Marseille\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Athens, OH.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 512\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 8.5 x 6.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 02, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51984052486445,"sku":"9780300276473","price":35.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/5iIlCIhFp99780300276473.webp?v=1776081628","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/letters-in-exile-transnational-journeys-of-a-harlem-renaissance-writer-hardcover","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}