Amiable with Big Teeth is a recently discovered manuscript by writer Claude McKay, who was a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Amiable with Big Teeth was written in the early 1940s, and its plot and themes examine the exploitation of African-Americans in Harlem by communist influences. The novel follows fictional characters that represent different aspects of the sociopolitical landscape in Harlem in the mid-1930s. The narrative explores themes of race, politics, manipulation, socialization, and personal relationships.
Claude McKay (1890-1948), Jamaican-born poet and novelist, is often called "the first voice of the Harlem renaissance." His verse and fiction are best known for protesting the social evils that plague...
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Once, on being asked his nationality, Claude McKay flippantly answered that he preferred to think of himself as an "internationalist." Though lightly given, the answer was not far off the mark. Born a...
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Claude McKay's poetry and his life display the presence of conflicting forces: his sense of identity as a black man and his desire to write out of a traditional literary heritage. While his poem "If W...
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Festus Claudius McKay was perhaps the most radical of the young black writers who came to prominence during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. Shaped by an attraction to genteel British culture, esp...
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What is generally termed the Harlem Renaissance, a decade of black self-awareness and racial pride, is frequently dated from the appearance in print of Claude McKay 's great sonnet "If We Must Die," ...
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Claude McKay
Festus Claudius McKay