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Festus Claudius "Claude" McKay OJ (September 15, 1890 [1] – May 22, 1948) was a Jamaican-American writer and poet. He was a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance.. Born in Jamaica, McKay first travelled to the United States to attend college, and encountered W. E. B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk which stimulated McKay's interest in political involvement.
Songs of Jamaica is the first book published by the African-Jamaican writer Claude McKay, which appeared in January 1912. [1] The Institute of Jamaica awarded McKay the Silver Musgrave Medal for this book and a second volume, Constab Blues, also published in 1912.
"If We Must Die" is a poem by Jamaican-American writer Claude McKay (1890–1948) published in the July 1919 issue of The Liberator magazine. McKay wrote the poem in response to mob attacks by white Americans upon African-American communities during the Red Summer. The poem does not specifically reference any group of people, and has been used ...
To The White Fiends is a Petrarchan sonnet by Claude McKay. [1] [2] The Poetry Foundation describes it as one of McKay's most famous works from the late 1910s. [3]In 2018 the scholar Timo Muller described it as "a pivotal text in the history of the black protest sonnet" and notes that it was McKay's first to reach a "wider audience". [4]
Edward Marsh (ed.), Georgian Poetry 1911-12, the first Georgian Poetry anthology Claude McKay , Constab Ballads ; along with Songs of Jamaica (published in Jamaica), constitute the first published collections of English-language, Creole dialect poetry; Jamaican poet published in the United Kingdom [ 12 ]
Claude McKay, Harlem Shadows Hughes Mearns , Antigonish , often called "The Little Man Who Wasn't There"; inspired by reports of a ghost of a man roaming the stairs of a haunted house in Antigonish , Nova Scotia ; written in 1899 and first published on March 22 by Franklin Pierce Adams in his New York World column; later a popular song
Other notable names in (anglophone) Caribbean literature have included Una Marson, Earl Lovelace, Austin Clarke, Claude McKay, Louise Bennett, Orlando Patterson, Andrew Salkey, Edward Kamau Brathwaite (who was born in Barbados and has lived in Ghana and Jamaica), Linton Kwesi Johnson, Velma Pollard and Michelle Cliff, to name only a few.
Female patois speaker saying two sentences A Jamaican Patois speaker discussing the usage of the language. Jamaican Patois (/ ˈ p æ t w ɑː /; locally rendered Patwah and called Jamaican Creole by linguists) is an English-based creole language with influences from West African, Arawak, Spanish and other languages, spoken primarily in Jamaica and among the Jamaican diaspora.