Amiable with Big Teeth - Rilegato

McKay, Claude

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ISBN 10: 0143107313 ISBN 13: 9780143107316

Casa editrice: Penguin Classics, 2017

Riassunto

The unexpected discovery in 2012 of a completed manuscript of Claude McKay's final novel was hailed by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. as 'a major event which dramatically expands the canon of novels written by Harlem Renaissance writers'. Building on the already extraordinary legacy of McKay's life and work, this colourful, dramatic novel centres on the effort by Harlem intelligentsia to organize support for the liberation of Mussolini-occupied Ethiopia, a crucial but largely forgotten event in American history. At once a penetrating satire of political machinations in Depression-era Harlem and a far-reaching story of global intrigue and romance, Amiable with Big Teeth plunges into the concerns, anxieties, hopes and dreams of African-Americans at a moment of crisis for the soul of Harlem.

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Recensione:

Claude McKay's poetry was one of the great forces in bringing about what is often called the 'Negro Literary Renaissance' (James Weldon Johnson)

L'autore:

Claude McKay was born in Jamaica, and moved to the U.S. in 1912 to study at the Tuskgee Institute. In 1928, he published his most famous novel, Home to Harlem, which won the Harmon Gold Award for Literature. He also published two other novels, Banjo and Banana Bottom, as well as a collection of short stories, Gingertown, two autobiographical books, A Long Way from Home and My Green Hills of Jamaica and a work of non-fiction, Harlem: Negro Metropolis. His Selected Poems was published posthumously, and in 1977 he was named the national poet of Jamaica.

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• Editore: Penguin Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0143107313
• ISBN 13: 9780143107316
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 352
• Redattore: Cloutier Jean-Christophe, Edwards Brent Hayes