Transhistoricizing Claude McKay's Romance in Marseille

by William J. Maxwell

Claude McKay's abandoned novel Romance in Marseille (circa 1929-1933), first published by Penguin Classics in February 2020, has been praised as a new-old text that transcends historical boundaries, resonating with both the present moment and the hundred-year-old era of the New Negro. This special issue offers the first-ever collection of academic essays on this novel, which arrived as an instant classic: both a benchmark of the Harlem Renaissance...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478021187
• ISBN13: 9781478021186
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 375 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.9" x 9.9"