Amiable with Big Teeth

Claude McKay (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

352 Seiten

2017
Penguin Classics (Verlag)
978-0-14-310731-6 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Erscheinungsdatum	04.02.2017
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	162 x 236 mm
Gewicht	550 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Historische Romane
	Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
	Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Krimi / Thriller
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-14-310731-3 / 0143107313
ISBN-13	978-0-14-310731-6 / 9780143107316
Zustand	Neuware