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Claude McKay

Songs of Jamaica

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You tas'e petater an' you say it sweet, / But you no know how hard we wuk fe it. In his debut collection, the first published in Jamaican Patois, Claude McKay addresses himself to a white audience, addressing the schism inherent to colonial society between white and black, rich and poor. Songs of Jamaica is a poetry collection by Claude McKay.

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Weitere Autoren: Editions, Mint (Beitr.)
  • ISBN: 978-1-5132-0938-8
  • EAN: 9781513209388
  • Produktnummer: 36774286
  • Verlag: Ingram Publishers Services
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
  • Seitenangabe: 126 S.

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Claude McKay (1889-1948) was a Jamaican poet and novelist. Born in Sunny Ville, Jamaica, McKay was raised in a strict Baptist family alongside seven siblings. Sent to live with his brother Theo, a journalist, at the age of nine, McKay excelled in school while reading poetry in his free time. In 1912, he published his debut collection Songs of Jamaica, the first poems written in Jamaican Patois to appear in print. That same year, he moved to the United States to attend the Tuskegee Institute, though he eventually transferred to Kansas State University. Upon his arrival in the South, he was shocked by the racism and segregation experienced by Black Americans, which-combined with his reading of W. E. B. Du Bois' work-inspired him to write political poems and to explore the principles of socialism. He moved to New York in 1914 without completing his degree, turning his efforts to publishing poems in The Seven Arts and later The Liberator, where he would serve as co-executive editor from 1919 to 1922. Over the next decade, he would devote himself to communism and black radicalism, joining the Industrial Workers of the World, opposing the efforts of Marcus Garvey and the NAACP, and travelling to Britain and Russia to meet with communists and write articles for various leftist publications. McKay, a bisexual man, was also a major figure of the Harlem Renaissance, penning Harlem Shadows (1922), a successful collection of poems, and Home to Harlem (1928), an award-winning novel exploring Harlem's legendary nightlife.

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