Volume 34, Number 20 · December 17, 1987
The Outsider
By Darryl Pinckney
Claude McKay: Rebel Sojourner in the Harlem Renaissance
by Wayne F. Cooper
Louisiana State University Press, 441 pp., $29.95
Claude McKay, 'the enfant terrible of the Negro Renaissance,' was born into a religious family of ambitious, small landholders in Jamaica in 1890. Though he published two short volumes of dialect verse in his early youth, invoked the idyll of his rural childhood in some of his later, conventional poetry, and drew from his experiences among the colonial peasantry for much of his fiction, the volatile McKay lived a life of utter deracination. He left the hill country of his native land in 1912 and never went back.
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