Home to Harlem - Claude McKay

Claude McKay’s most well-known Harlem Renaissance novel now in Penguin ClassicsA Penguin ClassicClaude McKay’s first novel, Home to Harlem, was published in 1928 during the height of the Harlem Renaissance. McKay portrays Harlem post-WWI through two Black migrants to New York: Jake, a Southern-born African American longshoreman who deserts the U.S. army and returns to his home in Harlem; and Ray, an educated Haitian immigrant. With his innovative use of Black dialects, McKay portrays a complex world... Zobrazit více