{"product_id":"harlem-shadows-the-poems-of-claude-mckay-paperback-1","title":"Harlem Shadows: The Poems of Claude McKay - 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\u003eClaude McKay\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJames Matthew Wilson\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the late 1910s to the mid 1930s, Harlem, New York City, was the center of an explosion of African-American social, artistic, and intellectual expression that came to be known as the Harlem Renaissance. Drawing African-Americans by the thousands to the 3-square-mile neighborhood in Manhattan, this historic movement represented, in the words of the author Claude McKay's contemporary Alain Locke, a \"spiritual coming of age\" that transformed the outlook of newly-emancipated people from one of \"social disillusionment to race pride.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong the many figures whose thought and writings impelled the Harlem Renaissance was the young poet Claude McKay, a Jamaican farmer of African descent who left his Caribbean village to pursue an intellectual life in the United States. \u003cem\u003eHarlem Shadows\u003c\/em\u003e, first published in 1922, is a collection of the author's best poems, which cemented his role as a leader of the movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHarlem Shadows\u003c\/em\u003e deals with a wide variety of themes-from nostalgic tales of the peaceful peasant life in Jamaica, to pragmatic criticisms on racial injustice in the United States, to poignant lamentations over the degradation of African-Americans in a debased urban environment, to simple but insightful descriptions of everyday life in America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems here presented offer much food for reflection, as McKay explores his life experiences and ancestral values through the lens of his own developing personal philosophy, shaped at the time by his Communist leanings, but with a sense of yearning for the Catholicism to which he would ultimately convert.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.27 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 16, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47881125560568,"sku":"9781621387091","price":22.83,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0698\/5629\/7208\/files\/SzdLUHlIRlBPL1JXd3R5cG5MU3ZZUT09.webp?v=1768787489","url":"https:\/\/barneysbooksellers.com\/products\/harlem-shadows-the-poems-of-claude-mckay-paperback-1","provider":"Barney's Book Sellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}