{"product_id":"claude-mckay-code-name-sasha-queer-black-marxism-and-the-harlem-renaissance-paperback","title":"Claude McKay, Code Name Sasha: Queer Black Marxism and the Harlem Renaissance - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGary Edward Holcomb\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Sasha\" was the code name adopted by Harlem Renaissance writer Claude McKay (1889-1948) to foil investigations of his life and work. Over a period of two decades, the FBI, U.S. State Department, British police and intelligence, and French law enforcement and colonial authorities took turns harassing McKay, an openly gay, Marxist, Jamaican expatriate who had left the United States and was living in Europe. In this study of four of McKay's texts--the first literary, cultural, and historical analysis to address the multilayered \"queer black anarchism\" in McKay's writings--Holcomb argues that McKay's \"fringe\" perspective not only targeted him for investigation but also contributed to a declining literary reputation. Perceived as mystifying and unacceptable because of his dedication to communism, McKay is perplexing and difficult to classify within the traditional constructs of the Harlem Renaissance. The problem that McKay's transnational, aesthetically itinerant writing inevitably has posed is where to locate him. In recent years, access into McKay's work has been transformed by new methods of interpreting the politics of literary texts, the growing significance of transnationality in literary and cultural analysis, and the impact of \"queer theory.\" Holcomb analyzes three of the most important works in McKay's career--the Jazz Age bestseller \u003ci\u003eHome to Harlem\u003c\/i\u003e, the négritude manifesto Banjo, and the unpublished \u003ci\u003eRomance in Marseille\u003c\/i\u003e. Holcomb uncovers ways in which \u003ci\u003eHome to Harlem\u003c\/i\u003e assembles a homefront queer black anarchism, and treats Banjo as a novel that portrays Marxist internationalist sexual dissidence. Among the most notable contributions to black modernist study, Holcomb's scholarship is the first to assess the consequence of McKay's landmark \u003ci\u003eRomance in Marseille\u003c\/i\u003e, a text that is, despite its absence from broad public access for nearly 80 years, conceivably the most significant early black diaspora text. Finally, he examines McKay's extensive FBI file and his late-1930s autobiography, \u003ci\u003eA Long Way from Home\u003c\/i\u003e, in which McKay disguises his past as a means of eluding his harassers. The memoir is essential to understanding McKay's first three novels. Relying on queer theory and related language-oriented approaches, moreover, this study emphasizes that the key to McKay's queer black Marxism lies as much in confronting his textual absence as it does in rereading the author historically.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eGary Edward Holcomb is associate professor of African American literature in the Americas at Ohio University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.65 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47468545868029,"sku":"9780813034508","price":55.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/V0ZEOGZyRk8rbGxkalNoQnlnempjQT09.webp?v=1777290410","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/claude-mckay-code-name-sasha-queer-black-marxism-and-the-harlem-renaissance-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}