Long Way From Home

by Claude McKay, St Clair Drake (Introduction)

Overview

McKay's account of his long odyssey from Jamaica to Harlem and then on to France, Britain, North Africa, Russia, and finally back to America. As well as depicting his own experiences, the author describes his encounters with such notable personalities as Charlie Chaplin, George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, Leon Trotsky, W. E. B. Du Bois, Isadora Duncan, Paul Robeson, and Sinclair Lewis.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780156531450
Publisher:	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication date:	03/25/1970
Series:	American Negro: His History and Literature Series
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	380
Product dimensions:	5.31(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Gene Andrew Jarrett is an assistant professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park, and the author of Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature.

Table of Contents

	Introduction	ix
Part 1	American Beginning
Chapter I	A Great Editor	3
Chapter II	Other Editors	26
Chapter III	White Friends	35
Chapter IV	Another White Friend	45
Part 2	English Inning
Chapter V	Adventuring in Search of George Bernard Shaw	59
Chapter VI	Pugilist Vs. Poet	66
Chapter VII	A Job in London	73
Chapter VIII	Regarding Reactionary Criticism	86
Part 3	New York Horizon
Chapter IX	Back in Harlem	95
Chapter X	A Brown Dove Cooing	116
Chapter XI	A Look at H. G. Wells	121
Chapter XII	"He Who Gets Slapped"	130
Chapter XIII	"Harlem Shadows"	147
Part 4	The Magic Pilgrimage
Chapter XIV	The Dominant Urge	153
Chapter XV	An Individual Triumph	167
Chapter XVI	The Pride and Pomp of Proletarian Power	172
Chapter XVII	Literary Interest	185
Chapter XVIII	Social Interest	191
Chapter XIX	A Great Celebration	206
Chapter XX	Regarding Radical Criticism	226
Part 5	The Cynical Continent
Chapter XXI	Berlin and Paris	237
Chapter XXII	Friends in France	253
Chapter XXIII	Frank Harris in France	265
Chapter XXIV	Cinema Studio	272
Chapter XXV	Marseilles Motley	277
Part 6	The Idylls of Africa
Chapter XXVI	When a Negro Goes Native	295
Chapter XXVII	The New Negro in Paris	306
Chapter XXVIII	Hail and Farewell to Morocco	324
Chapter XXIX	On Belonging to a Minority Group	342