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...Steven S. Lee Copyright © 2015 Regents of the University of Colorado 2015 Harlem via M exico-U z b e k is ta n : Race a n d S ex fro m th e P eripheries of R evolution S t e v e n S. L e e Introduction: Transnationalism , R elationality, and Radical Remapping In h e r b rillia n t d is c u s...

...John Claborn Copyright © 2010 Regents of the University of Colorado 2010 W ho S et You F e e l i n ? Harlem, Communal Affect, and the G reat M igration N a r r a t iv e in Jam es Ba l d w in s So n n y s B l u e s John C laborn In one o f the m any flashback scenes in Jam es B aldw...

...Terry Rowden Harlem U n dercover: D if f e r e n c e a n d d e s ir e in A f r ic a n A m e r ic a n P o pu la r M u s ic , 1920-1940 T erry Row den I n recent African American cultural criticism much attention has been paid to the com ­ plicated nature of the representation of sexuality routinely...

...Laura Ryan Abstract This article argues that Romance in Marseille marks a significant shift in Claude McKay’s approach to primitivism, one that necessitates a reconsideration of his reputation—based on his two novels of the late 1920s—as perhaps the Harlem Renaissance’s foremost proponent...

...Michael J. Collins Abstract This article considers Claude McKay’s Romance in Marseille through two emerging fields of study: “Afropessimism” and anthropological theories of the “liminal hotspot.” It suggests that McKay’s novel functions as a critique of positive Harlem Renaissance images...

... against Home to Harlem (1928) and Banjo (1929), offers one of the most sustained, nuanced representations of queer life in McKay’s archive and in early twentieth-century LGBT literature more generally, one in which same-sex-oriented characters are rendered as normal, integral figures in urban life rather...

... which disrupt the assumption of a singu­ lar African American national identity during the New Negro Movement. My study of the A rth u r A. Schomburg Papers not only reveals the diverse ethnic backdrop of Harlem, but also sheds light on the cultural complexities, the political tensions, and competing...

...Gary Edward Holcomb; William J. Maxwell Copyright © 2021 Regents of the University of Colorado 2021 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. In February 2020 Penguin Classics published the Harlem Renaissance...

... Lips nine decades earlier in McKay’s Home to Harlem —is now quiet (quiet, that is, for Brooklyn). 1 All of this as a new global depression looms, a quarter million worldwide are already dead from COVID-19 (and counting), and fascist epigones from India to Brazil to Hungary expand their power under...

... of the city is beyond question. But scholarly attention remains focused on his relationship with Harlem, even though much of his corpus was written outside it and about other places, and he worried about kinds of limits that New York and Harlem could impose. In fact, McKay dreaded returning to the place...

... Étrangers : Plots and Identity Papers in Banjo .” Twentieth-Century Literature 55 , no. 3 ( 2009 ): 357 – 77 . Cooper Wayne . Claude McKay: Rebel Sojourner in the Harlem Renaissance . New York : Schocken , 1987 . de Tarde , Alfred. “ The Work of France in Morocco...

... the play's production, the playw right notes that numerous w hite Broadway producers rejected the original script, and it was not until 1938 that the Harlem Negro Unit of the Federal Theatre Project (FTP) first staged it.s As the story goes, black director Maurice Clark revised DuBois's script particularly...

...: The Literary L eft in the Era o f the Cold War In 2007, a fte r a p e rio d o f rese a rch and w r itin g th a t la s te d lo n g e r th a n I w o u ld have liked, I produced Claude McKay, Code N am e Sasha: Q ueer Black M arxism an d the Harlem R e n a issa n ce. 1 L o o k in g at te x ts like H o m e to H...

... miscegenations, McKay may ultimately foreclose the political possibilities of a pan-Atlantic-Mediterranean diasporic alliance because he did not see Islam as compatible with his own identity as a vagabond Harlem poet. This possibility is influenced by the complex politics of McKay’s Orientalism, through which he...

... in this scene from McKay’s novel Home to Harlem : “In the middle of the floor, a young railroad porter had his hand flattened straight down the slim, cérise-chiffoned back of a brown girl. Her head was thrown back and her eyes held his gleaming eyes. Her lips were parted with pleasure and they stood and rocked...

... S. Lee s h o w t h a t w h a t c r itic s o f Black interwar period culture call the "Harlem Renaissance," with its intense focus on creatively rethinking and recontextualizing Black bodies, provided the underpinnings for a new set of material rhetorics for future sex radicalisms. Holcomb's...

... and the Reconstruction o f the Image o f the Black," Representations 24 (Autum n 1988): 129-55. Since the publication o f Gates's essay, several literary scholars have studied the play of image and text in the cultural construction o f the "N ew Negro." M ost o f these studies focus on the later period o f the Harlem...

..., as well as in collections fr o m Cambridge and Palgrave-Macmillan. Forthcoming scholarship includes an article on Langston Hughes's radical 1930s short fiction in MFS, a chapter on "Black Marxism and the Literary Left" for the Blackwell C om panion to the Harlem Renaissance, and a critical collection...

... with oceanic voyages is not limited to stowaways and paying passengers, since maritime laborers are the book’s most numerous seafarers. Indeed, several of McKay’s novels feature sailors and dockworkers: Home to Harlem opens with protagonist Jake Brown working aboard a freighter; Banjo is set among...

... in a manner consistent with European modernity and its rupture with tradition. The signature term of the Harlem Renaissance, the New Negro , suggests as much. The New Negro rejects the debacle of the post-Reconstruction era and instead proclaims a new militancy in the African American freedom struggle...