...James R. Giles By Heather Hathaway. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press. 1999. xi, 200 pp.$29.95. 2000 880 American Literature Caribbean Waves: Relocating Claude McKay and Paule Marshall. By Heather...

.... Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi. 2006. ix, 230 pp. $40.00. Claude McKay, Code Name Sasha: Queer Black Marxism and the Harlem Renaissance . By Gary Edward Holcomb. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida. 2007. xiv, 273 pp. $59.95. Book Reviews Godly Letters: The Literature...

... with the acoustics of white power, this laughter also found a significant place in the poetry of Claude McKay, Sterling Brown, and Langston Hughes. In what Emily Thompson has called an “increasingly `sound-conscious'” era, these poets registered and analyzed the emergence of this new, combative black laugh...

... © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 American Literature  915 Erratum for Sonya Posmentier, “The Provision Ground in New York: Claude McKay and the Form of Memory,” American Literature 84 (June 2012): 273–300. On page 295, the following...

...Sonya Posmentier Reading Claude McKay’s “The Tropics in New York” as a twentieth-century aesthetic equivalent of a slave provision ground, Posmentier argues that the poem asserts cultural autonomy even in the face of the dislocation it describes. In doing so, she suggests that formal lyric poetry...

...Diane McKay By Renée R. Curry. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood. 2000. xii, 184 pp.$62.50. By Mason Stokes. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2001. viii, 252 pp. Cloth,$54.95; paper, $18.95. By Catherine Jurca. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2001. viii, 238 pp. Cloth, $49.50; paper...

..., and situating key literary figures—most prominently Charles Chesnutt—within this tradition. Chesnutt and others (Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, and Toni Morrison among them) adapt and revise multiple mythic traditions—ancient and modern, “African” and “American,” “black” and “white”—to counter an exceptionalist...

... as an erotic African-Oriental exotic, a figure of the European colonial-sexual imaginary. It is puzzling, moreover, that sex radical Claude McKay warrants only a passing mention in Reid-Pharr’s queer-inflected analysis of the black body, humanism, and Spain. McKay enjoyed extensive stays in Spain, seeming...

.... Claude McKay, Code Name Sasha: Queer Black Marxism and the Harlem Renais- sance. By Gary Edward Holcomb. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida. 2007. xiv, 273 pp. $59.95. These four books illustrate the diversity of perspective in recent criticism on African American literature. James Coleman...

... of Mississippi. 2006. ix, 230 pp. $40.00. Claude McKay, Code Name Sasha: Queer Black Marxism and the Harlem Renais- sance. By Gary Edward Holcomb. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida. 2007. xiv, 273 pp. $59.95. These four books illustrate the diversity of perspective in recent criticism on African...

.... Claude McKay, Code Name Sasha: Queer Black Marxism and the Harlem Renais- sance. By Gary Edward Holcomb. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida. 2007. xiv, 273 pp. $59.95. These four books illustrate the diversity of perspective in recent criticism on African American literature. James Coleman...

... of Mississippi. 2006. ix, 230 pp. $40.00. Claude McKay, Code Name Sasha: Queer Black Marxism and the Harlem Renais- sance. By Gary Edward Holcomb. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida. 2007. xiv, 273 pp. $59.95. These four books illustrate the diversity of perspective in recent criticism on African...

.... Claude McKay, Code Name Sasha: Queer Black Marxism and the Harlem Renais- sance. By Gary Edward Holcomb. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida. 2007. xiv, 273 pp. $59.95. These four books illustrate the diversity of perspective in recent criticism on African American literature. James Coleman...

... of Mississippi. 2006. ix, 230 pp. $40.00. Claude McKay, Code Name Sasha: Queer Black Marxism and the Harlem Renais- sance. By Gary Edward Holcomb. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida. 2007. xiv, 273 pp. $59.95. These four books illustrate the diversity of perspective in recent criticism on African...

... of Mississippi. 2006. ix, 230 pp. $40.00. Claude McKay, Code Name Sasha: Queer Black Marxism and the Harlem Renais- sance. By Gary Edward Holcomb. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida. 2007. xiv, 273 pp. $59.95. These four books illustrate the diversity of perspective in recent criticism on African...

...; compact disc, $9.95. Black Writers, White Publishers: Marketplace Politics in Twentieth-Century African American Literature. By John K. Young. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi. 2006. ix, 230 pp. $40.00. Claude McKay, Code Name Sasha: Queer Black Marxism and the Harlem Renais- sance. By Gary...

... as infinite planetary resources whose inexhaustibility destroys the logic of property and scarcity that under- lies our failed global system. Sonya Posmentier’s contribution, on the agricultural imagination of acclaimed Harlem Renaissance poet Claude McKay, meditates on the possibility...

.... “The Old Men and the ‘Sea of Masscult’: T. S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, and Middlebrow Aesthetics,” 151–74. Posmentier, Sonya. “The Provision Ground in New York: Claude McKay and the Form of Memory,” 273–300. Putzi, Jennifer. “‘Some Queer Freak of Taste’: Gender, Authorship, and the ‘Rock...

... Whitman’s vast sphere of influence. A remarkable range of poets that included Kilmer, William Carlos Williams, T. S. Eliot, Edna St. Vincent Millay, John Reed, Sara Teasdale, and Claude McKay began generating verses from the machine-age city. Whether celebrating the city’s exhilara- tions, decrying its...

... and Claude McKay in his joint review of Quicksand and Home to Harlem.67 But the issue includes yet another provoca- tive coupling that discloses even more dramatically DuBois’s prob- lematic ideal for a modern racial...