Home to Harlem

Name: Home to Harlem
Author: Claude McKay

by Claude McKay

Novel of Black soldier's return to Harlem amid 1920s cultural awakening

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Claude McKay

Jamaican-American poet and novelist who was a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance. His poetry and novel Home to Harlem brought Caribbean sensibility to African American literature and articulated Black pride before the civil rights era.

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