A Jamaican-born writer describes his experiences traveling throughout the world following World War I, and recalls his friendships with celebrities of the Twenties and Thirties

Product Description: Claude McKay, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and Charles Chestnut are among the stellar writers featured in this exceptional collection of short stories.

Through a cast which includes West African anglophones, West African francophones, North Africans, Caribbean islanders and Afro-Americans, this long-lost novel explores racial and sexual identity and the nature of sexual desire. The central figure in the book is Lafala, a West Indian whose story begins with the loss of his legs whilst a stowaway on a ship to the USA. Financially compensated for his crippling accident, he returns to Marseille and his semi-underworld life. Here a series of characters compete for Lafala's sexual, social and political attention, revealing something of the extraordinary multi cultural life of Marseille in the early twentieth century.

Analyzes the themes and politics of the early Jamaican works of poet Claude McKay, known for his works on the African Diaspora; explores his use of Jamaican creole; and collects early poems and a comic sketch about Jamaican peasant life. (view table of contents)

After seven years of English schooling, Bita Plant has difficulty returning to the primitive life-style of her native Jamaican village

Product Description: McKay's account of his long odyssey from Jamaica to Harlem and then on to France, Britain, North Africa, Russia, and finally back to America. As well as depicting his own experiences, the author describes his encounters with such notable personalities as Charlie Chaplin, George Bernard Shaw, H...read more

Product Description: Written in the late 1940s but unpublished till now, this superb portrayal of Black life during the Great Depression and the New Deal is virtually a sequel to the classic Home to Harlem. Mckay's vivid, warm evocations of the omnipresent numbers racket, all-night jazz parties and the whole exuberant and cacophonous clash of social movements and ideologies - Black nationalism and industrial unionism as well as incipient Muslim and other heterodox religious formations - provide the context for a fast-paced narrative of love, work, play and revolt in Black America during one of the most stirring periods in US history...read more

Jake is on the run. After serving overseas with the U.S. Army, he goes AWOL and makes his own way home back to Harlem. But no hero's welcome awaits him.

A wandering Black longshoreman searches for racial and individual identity amid the fugitives who congregate in the waterfront slums of Marseilles

Five emotional lyric poems of the young Jamaican who was an important member of the Negro literary renaissance of the 1920's