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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.
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.
Claude McKay was born in Jamaica in 1889. He moved to the United States in 1912, and after attending several schools, settled in New York City. He began to publish more poetry pseudonymously (having first published several collections in Jamaica). McKay's poetry was generally well received, particularly "To the White Fiends". [2]
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]
Romance in Marseille is a novel by Claude McKay. The novel was published posthumously in 2020, 87 years after it was written, as the original editors considered the novel too transgressive for its time. [1] [2] It is McKay's second posthumously published novel in recent years. [3]
Cane was celebrated by well-known African-American critics and artists, including Claude McKay, Nella Larsen, Richard Wright, Langston Hughes and Wallace Thurman. [citation needed] Cane is structured in three parts. The first third of the book is devoted to the black experience in the Southern farmland.