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title Claude McKay A Black Poets Struggle for Identity author - photo 1

title:Claude McKay : A Black Poet's Struggle for Identity
author:Tillery, Tyrone.
publisher:University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin:0870237624
print isbn13:9780870237621
ebook isbn13:9780585344966
language:English
subjectMcKay, Claude,--1890-1948, Authors, American--20th century--Biography, Authors, Jamaican--20th century--Biography, Identity (Psychology) in literature, African Americans in literature.
publication date:1992
lcc:PS3525.A2Z89 1991eb
ddc:811/.54
subject:McKay, Claude,--1890-1948, Authors, American--20th century--Biography, Authors, Jamaican--20th century--Biography, Identity (Psychology) in literature, African Americans in literature.
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Claude McKay
A Black Poet's Struggle for Identity
Tyrone Tillery
Page iv Copyright 1992 by The University of Massachusetts Press All - photo 2
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Copyright 1992 by The University of Massachusetts Press
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
LC 91-25135
ISBN 0-87023-762-4
Designed by David Ford
Set in Mergenthaler Caledonia
Printed and bound by Thomson-Shore, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Tillery, Tyrone, 1946
Claude McKay : a black poet's struggle for identity /
Tyrone Tillery.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-87023-762-4 (alk. paper)
1. McKay, Claude, 18901948. 2. Authors,
American20th centuryBiography. 3. Authors,
Jamaican20th centuryBiography. 4. Identity
(Psychology) in literature. 5. Afro-Americans in
literature. I. Title.
PS3525.A24785Z89 1991
811'.54dc 20 9125135
[B] CIP
British Library, Cataloguing in Publication data are available.
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For the Tillerys
but especially for Wesley, my father
and Tyrone, my son
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Contents
Preface
ix
Acknowledgments
xi
1
In Search of Larger Worlds
3
2
In Search of Moorings
21
3
The Problems of a Black Radical: 19191923
38
4
"How Shall the Negro Be Portrayed?" and Home to Harlem
76
5
Banjo: Art and Self-Catharsis
107
6
Back to Harlem
126
7
I Have Come to Lead the Renaissance
148
8
A Long Way from Home
165
Notes
185
Bibliography
219
Index
231

Page ix
Preface
The 1920s witnessed an extraordinary flowering of literary and artistic creativity among African Americans. Critics hailed the emergence of a "New Negro," who took pride in the black race and its African heritage, and whose writings exposed and attacked discrimination, explored black folk culture, and strove to create a unique African-American literature. Yet for all its vitality, the cultural movement best known as the Harlem Renaissance was fraught with tensions: between the ideal of Africa and the reality of America; between the lure of a romanticized rural past and the demands of an alien urban present; between the need to affirm the uniqueness of black culture and the desire to achieve acceptance by the majority white culture.
Perhaps more than any other Harlem Renaissance figure, Claude McKay embodied these contradictory impulses. A Jamaican immensely proud of his peasant heritage, he abandoned his homeland, immigrated to the United States, and embarked on a career as a writer. A political radical contemptuous of all things middle class, he embraced and later rejected communism, and eventually converted to Roman Catholicism. A poet whose verse breathed militance, anger, and alienation, he dreamed of transcending racial categories and developed his closest relationships with white intellectuals.
Not surprisingly, contemporary judgments of McKay reflected these paradoxes. He was derided as a "racial opportunist," a "black fascist," a propagandist, and a charlatan. Yet he was also widely regarded as a literary genius and became the first black writer to make the best-seller list.
This book is an interpretation of the life and work of Claude McKay. My aim is twofold: to offer a psychological portrait of a complex, deeply conflicted literary figure, and to use McKay's life as a vehicle for analyzing the larger problems of identity, vocation, and politics that confronted black intellectuals and artists during the interwar years. Drawing upon a wide range of archival
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sources, including recently declassified government documents, I explore the roots of McKay's political radicalism. I also provide an analysis of the contrasting meanings of race in the Caribbean and the United States, the literary politics of Harlem in the 1920s, and the ambivalence that characterized relations between black and white intellectuals in McKay's time.
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