Search Results for Claude McKay

...Winston James Small Axe Incorporated 2003 Becoming the People’s Poet: Claude McKay’s Jamaican Years, 1889-1912 Winston James INTRODUCTION n July 1912 Claude McKay, two months short of his twenty-third birthday, left his island home for study in the United States. McKay would...

...Alex Benson Claude McKay's “Cudjoe Fresh from de Lecture” first saw print in his 1912 volume Songs of Jamaica . Its speaker, whose voice appears in a densely patterned representation of Jamaican Creole, meditates on biological variation and colonial history. Setting the poem against discourses...

... conflictual project with some of the leading anti-colonial radicals of the early to mid-twentieth century, figures like Marcus Garvey and George Padmore but also leading figures of the Harlem Renaissance such as Claude McKay and Langston Hughes. While the Huiswouds’ political activity is known among a small...

... Kouyaté, George Pad- more, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, and W. E. B. Du Bois. Edwards off ers inno- vative approaches to the ways in which we read race, nation, language, and diaspora. Translation, he posits, articulates diaspora as a negotiation of linguistic, cultural, and national diff erences...

... Black Internationalisms: West Indian Radicals and The Practice of Diaspora Michelle Stephens ne of Claude McKay’s unique contributions to the fi eld of transnational black studies was his ability to bridge the multiple cultural worlds of the African dias- Opora. As much...

..., instead of, as Belinda Edmondson has shown us for fi gures such as George Lamming and Claude McKay, deeply infl ected by it.¹ In Civilising Subjects, we see how events in Morant Bay, Jamaica, in 1865 resonated not just in the halls of London’s Colonial Offi ce or in the editorials that prominent...

... CCobhamobham at work in Claude McKay’s comments on his father’s independence in his interactions with white missionaries in late-nineteenth-century Jamaica. In a chapter called “White Friends” in his autobiography, A Long Way from Home, McKay describes his father’s atti- tudes as ranging from cordiality...

... followed in their father’s footsteps and performed Creole skits around the island. 1 Stanford certainly knew Uriah Theo McKay, Claude McKay’s widely respected schoolteacher brother who defended the use of literary Creole by the “White” writer H. G. de Lisser. 2 Stanford loved to compose Anglican...

... dinner table. So Rupert Gray marries the white liberal’s daughter and inherits the plantation, visits Booker T. Washington’s Tuskegee Institute (where both Claude McKay and Marcus Garvey would find themselves later in that decade), and refuses offers from both the English aristocrat and the North...

... and truly into legend” (p. 348). But long before them, Claude McKay, that original owner of Fire’s typewriter, strug- gled to make sense of his sojourns in Harlem, London, Paris and Marseilles, Moscow, and Tangier. As for his celebration of the erotic: he was lambasted by his...

... the Banner of Ethiopia: Caribbean Radicalism in Early Twentieth Cen- tury America (1998), which won the Gordon K. Lewis Memorial Award for Caribbean ssmallmall Scholarship, and A Fierce Hatred of Injustice: Claude McKay’s Jamaica and His Poetry of aaxexe Rebellion (2000). He is the editor...

... the Banner of Ethiopia: Caribbean Radicalism in Early Twentieth Cen- tury America (1998), which won the Gordon K. Lewis Memorial Award for Caribbean ssmallmall Scholarship, and A Fierce Hatred of Injustice: Claude McKay’s Jamaica and His Poetry of aaxexe Rebellion (2000). He is the editor...

... the Banner of Ethiopia: Caribbean Radicalism in Early Twentieth Cen- tury America (1998), which won the Gordon K. Lewis Memorial Award for Caribbean ssmallmall Scholarship, and A Fierce Hatred of Injustice: Claude McKay’s Jamaica and His Poetry of aaxexe Rebellion (2000). He is the editor...

... and Claude McKay, and patriarchal black millennialist Marcus Garvey. The reason I raise the comparison with white American political hawks is precisely the American race factor: American interest in the con- cept has been, and continues to be, the preserve of white America, and a very...

... and Claude McKay, and patriarchal black millennialist Marcus Garvey. The reason I raise the comparison with white American political hawks is precisely the American race factor: American interest in the con- cept has been, and continues to be, the preserve of white America, and a very...

... and Claude McKay, and patriarchal black millennialist Marcus Garvey. The reason I raise the comparison with white American political hawks is precisely the American race factor: American interest in the con- cept has been, and continues to be, the preserve of white America, and a very...

... and Claude McKay, and patriarchal black millennialist Marcus Garvey. The reason I raise the comparison with white American political hawks is precisely the American race factor: American interest in the con- cept has been, and continues to be, the preserve of white America, and a very...

... literature, and political thought, and is currently working on a book- ssmallmall length study of the writings of Marcus Garvey, Claude McKay, and C. L. R. James aaxexe entitled Black Empire: Th e Masculine Global Imaginary of Caribbean Intellectuals in the U.S., 1914–1962 (forthcoming 2005...

... are at risk, “accosted,” shamed, and made to feel unsafe in the public domain by a marauding sociopath. These are Claude McKay's “midnight women,” who remind lower-middle-class clerks, poets, constables, and constable-poets of their own precarious social situation in a colony that prevents them from...

... of the lecture circuit as a mode of performance are as useful as recovering well-known events like the Morant Bay Rebellion, more familiar names like Claude McKay, and the established role of music and theater in Creole literatures. Myopically presentist views distort the complexity and specificity of the past...