Suggestions for Further Reading

BY CLAUDE MCKAY

Amiable with Big Teeth: A Novel of the Love Affair Between the Communists and the Poor Black Sheep of Harlem. Edited and introduced by Jean-Christophe Cloutier and Brent Hayes Edwards. New York: Penguin, 2017.

Banana Bottom. 1933. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1974.

Banjo: A Story Without a Plot. 1929. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1970.

Complete Poems. Edited and introduced by William J. Maxwell. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004.

Gingertown. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1932.

Harlem: Negro Metropolis. New York: Dutton, 1940.

Harlem Glory: A Fragment of Aframerican Life. Preface by Carl Cowl. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 1990.

Harlem Shadows. Introduction by Max Eastman. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1922.

Home to Harlem. 1928. Foreword by Wayne F. Cooper. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1987.

A Long Way from Home. 1937. Edited and introduced by Gene Andrew Jarrett. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2007.

My Green Hills of Jamaica and Five Jamaican Short Stories. Edited by Mervyn Morris. Kingston: Heinemann, 1979.

The Negroes in America. 1923. Edited by Alan McLeod. Translated from the Russian by Robert J. Winter. Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1979.

The Passion of Claude McKay. Edited by Wayne F. Cooper. New York: Knopf, 1976.

Trial by Lynching: Stories of Negro Life in North America (Sudom Lincha). 1925. Edited and introduced by A. L. McLeod. Translated from the Russian by Robert J. Winter. Mysore, India: University of Mysore, Centre for Commonwealth Literature and Research, 1977.

CRITICISM

Bell, Christopher M., ed. Blackness and Disability: Critical Examinations and Cultural Interventions. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2011.

Bishop, Jacqueline. “Claude McKay’s Songs of Morocco.” Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire 14.1 (spring–summer 2014): 68–75.

Braddock, Jeremy. “Media Studies 1932: Nancy Cunard in the Archive of Claude McKay.” Modernism/modernity 3.2. Web. May 30, 2018. https://modernismmodernity.org/articles/media-studies-1932.

Cloutier, Jean-Christophe. Shadow Archives: The Lifecycles of African American Literature. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019.

Cooper, Wayne F. Claude McKay: Rebel Sojourner in the Harlem Renaissance. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987.

Davis, Lennard J. Bending over Backwards: Disability, Dismodernism, and Other Difficult Positions. New York: New York University Press, 2002.

Edwards, Brent Hayes. “Vagabond Internationalism: Claude McKay’s Banjo.” The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003: 187–240.

Etherington, Ben. “Claude McKay’s Primitivist Narration.” Literary Primitivism. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018: 135–159.

Fabre, Michel. “Claude McKay and the Two Faces of France.” From Harlem to Paris: Black American Writers in France, 1840–1980. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991: 92–113.

Hathaway, Heather. Caribbean Waves: Relocating Claude McKay and Paule Marshall. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999.

Holcomb, Gary Edward. “‘Swaying to the Music of the Moon’: Black-White Queer Solidarity in Romance in Marseille.” Claude McKay, Code Name Sasha: Queer Black Marxism and the Harlem Renaissance. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2007: 171–224.

Hutchinson, George. The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White. Cambridge, MA: Belknap-Harvard University Press, 1996.

James, Jennifer C., and Cynthia Wu. “Editors’ Introduction: Race, Ethnicity, Disability, and Literature: Intersections and Interventions.” MELUS 31.3 (fall 2006): 3–13.

James, Winston. A Fierce Hatred of Injustice: Claude McKay’s Jamaica and His Poetry of Rebellion. London: Verso, 2000.

Lee, Steven S. The Ethnic Avant-Garde: Minority Cultures and World Revolution. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015.

Lowney, John. “‘Harlem Jazzing’: Claude McKay, Home to Harlem, and Jazz Internationalism.” Jazz Internationalism: Literary Afro-Modernism and the Cultural Politics of Black Music. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2017: 27–58.

Maxwell, William J. New Negro, Old Left: African-American Writing and Communism Between the Wars. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.

——. F.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover’s Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015.

Newman, Eric H. “Ephemeral Utopias: Queer Cruising, Literary Form, and Diasporic Imagination in Claude McKay’s Home to Harlem and Banjo.” Callaloo 38.1 (winter 2015): 167–185.

Posmentier, Sonya. “The Provision Ground in New York: Claude McKay and the Form of Memory.” American Literature 84.2 (June 2012): 273–300.

Schmidt, Michael David. “A Queer Romance of Materialism: McKay’s Romance in Marseilles.” The Materialism of the Encounter: Queer Sociality and Capital in Modern Literature. Wayne State University Dissertations, 2013, Paper 697: 172–221.

Schwarz, A. B. Crista. Gay Voices of the Harlem Renaissance. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003.

Stone, Andrea. “The Black Atlantic Revisited, the Body Reconsidered: On Lingering, Liminality, Lies, and Disability.” American Literary History 24.4 (winter 2012): 814–826.

Thomson, Rosemarie Garland. Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.