{"product_id":"letters-in-exile-transnational-journeys-of-a-harlem-renaissance-writer","title":"Letters in Exile: Transnational Journeys of a Harlem Renaissance Writer","description":"\u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\" style=\"max-height: none; height: 280px;\"\u003e \u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA collection of private correspondence from one of the Harlem Renaissance‚Äôs brightest and most radical voices\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The Jamaican-born, queer author Claude McKay (1890‚Äì1948) was a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance. His 1919 poem ‚ÄúIf We Must Die‚Äù expressed a revolutionary vision for militant Black protest art, while his novels, including \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHome to Harlem\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBanjo\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBanana Bottom\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Brooks E. Hefner and Gary Edward Holcomb bring together two decades of McKay‚Äôs 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‚Äôs Lost Generation, immerses himself in the Marseille dockers‚Äô 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.\u003c\/span\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-header a-expander-partial-collapse-header\" style=\"opacity: 1; display: block;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content-fade\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"javascript:void(0)\" role=\"button\" data-action=\"a-expander-toggle\" class=\"a-declarative\" data-a-expandev\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50319097823517,"sku":"9780300276473","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0901\/5692\/5213\/files\/9780300276473.jpg?v=1757018188","url":"https:\/\/bookdelico.com\/products\/letters-in-exile-transnational-journeys-of-a-harlem-renaissance-writer","provider":"Book Delico ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}