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Born in September 15, 1889 / Died in May 22, 1948 / Jamaica / English

Furtherreading

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BOOKS

  • African-American Almanac, sixth edition, Gale, 1994.
  • Bad Object Choices, editors, How Do I Look, Bay Press, 1991.
  • Baker, Houston A., Jr., Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance, University of Chicago Press, 1987.
  • Barton, Rebecca Chalmers, Witnesses for Freedom: Negro Americans in Autobiography, Harper, 1948.
  • Beier, Ulli, editor, Introduction to African Literature: An Anthology of Critical Writing from "Black Orpheus," Longmans, 1967.
  • Black Literature Criticism, Gale, 1993.
  • Bone, Robert, The Negro Novel in America, rev. ed., Yale University Press, 1965.
  • Brawley, Benjamin, The Negro Genius: A New Appraisal of the Achievement of the American Negro in Literature and the Fine Arts, Dodd, 1937.
  • Bronze, Stephen, Roots of Negro Consciousness, the 1920's: Three Harlem Renaissance Authors, Libra, 1964.
  • Brown, Lloyd W., West Indian Poetry, Twayne, 1978, pp. 39-62.
  • Contemporary Black Biography, Volume 6, Gale, 1994.
  • Conroy, Mary James, Claude McKay: Negro Poet and Novelist, University Microfilms, 1968.
  • Cooper, Wayne F., Claude McKay: Rebel Sojourner in the Harlem Renaissance: A Biography, Louisiana State University Press, 1987.
  • Dictionary of Literary Biography, Gale, Volume 4: American Writers in Paris, 1920-1939, 1980, Volume 45: American Poets, 1880-1945, First Series, 1986, Volume 51: American Writers from the Harlem Renaissance to 1940, 1987, Volume 117: Twentieth-Century Caribbean and Black African Writers, First Series, 1992.
  • Duberman, Martin, Martha Vicinus, and George Chauncey, Jr., editors,Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past, Meridian, 1989, pp. 318-31.
  • Emanuel, James A., and Theodore L. Gross, Dark Symphony: Negro Literature in America, Free Press, 1968.
  • Fullinwider, S. P., The Mind and Mood of Black America: 20th Century Thought, Dorsey, 1969.
  • Gayle, Addison, Jr., Claude McKay: The Black Poet at War, Broadside, 1972.
  • Giles, James R., Claude McKay, Twayne, 1976.
  • Gloster, Hugh M., Negro Voices in American Fiction, University of North Carolina Press, 1948.
  • Huggins, Nathan, Harlem Renaissance, Oxford University Press, 1971.
  • Hughes, Carl Milton, The Negro Novelist: 1940-1950, Citadel, 1953.
  • Kent, George E., Blackness and the Adventure of Western Culture, Third World Press, 1972, pp. 36-52.
  • Lang, Phyllis Martin, Claude McKay: The Later Years, 1934-48, University Microfilms, 1973.
  • LeSeur, Geta J., The Harlem Renaissance: Revaluations, Garland, 1989, pp. 219-31.
  • Lewis, David Levering, When Harlem Was in Vogue, Oxford University Press, 1981.
  • Magill, Frank N., editor, Masterpieces of African-American Literature, HarperCollins, 1992.
  • Massa, Daniel, editor, Individual and Community in Commonwealth Literature, University of Malta, 1979, pp. 75-83.
  • Poetry Criticism, Volume 2, Gale, 1991.
  • Ramchand, Kenneth, The West Indian Novel and Its Background, Barnes & Noble, 1970.
  • Reference Guide to American Literature, second edition, St. James Press, 1987.
  • Rothenberg, Paula S., editor, Race, Class and Gender in the United States, St. Martins, 1995.
  • Samuels, Wilfred D., Five Afro-Caribbean Voices in American Culture, 1917-1929, Belmont, 1977, pp. 61-82.
  • Tillery, Tyrone, Claude McKay: A Black Poet's Struggle for Identity, University of Massachusetts Press, 1992.
  • Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Gale, Volume 7, 1982, Volume 41, 1991.
  • Wagner, Jean, Les Poetes negres des Etats-Unis, Librairies Istra, 1962, translation by Kenneth Douglas published as Black Poets of the United States: From Paul Laurence Dunbar to Langston Hughes, University of Illinois Press, 1973, pp. 197-257.
  • Wolfe, Susan J., and Julia Penelope, editors, Sexual Practice, Textual Theory: Lesbian Cultural Criticism, Blackwell, 1993.
  • World Literature Criticism, Gale, 1992.
PERIODICALS
  • African American Review, fall, 1994, p. 447.
  • America, July 3, 1943.
  • American Poetry Review, number 4, 1975, pp. 40-42.
  • Black Orpheus, June, 1965, pp. 39-48.
  • Bookman, April, 1928; February, 1930.
  • Caribbean Quarterly, June, 1983, pp. 22-29.
  • CLA Journal, March, 1972, pp. 338-44, 345-53; June, 1973; December, 1975; March, 1980, pp. 336-51; September, 1986, pp. 46-58; March, 1989, pp. 296-308.
  • Crisis, June, 1928.
  • Extension, September, 1946.
  • Genders, spring, 1990, pp. 32-46.
  • Jamaica Journal, May-July, 1986, pp. 46-48.
  • Journal of American Culture, fall, 1991, pp. 91-96.
  • Journal of Commonwealth Literature, July, 1970, pp. 33-44.
  • Journal of Homosexuality, numbers 2-3, 1993, pp. 127-42.
  • Literary Half-Yearly, July, 1986, pp. 39-45, 65-75.
  • Negro American Literature Forum, spring, 1971, pp. 15-23.
  • New York Post, May 22, 1937.
  • Poetry, February, 1954, pp. 287-90.
  • Phylon, fall, 1948; fall, 1964, pp. 297-306.
  • Presence Africaine, first quarter, 1970, pp. 165-69.
  • Race, July, 1967; November, 1970, pp. 37-51.
  • Southern Review, number 1, 1970, pp. 53-66.
  • Studies in Black Literature, summer, 1972.