A Fierce Hatred of Injustice - Claude McKay’s Jamaica and His Poetry of Rebellion

About the author

Claude McKay was a Jamaican-American writer and poet. He was a seminal figure in the Harlem Renaissance and author of numerous works.Winston James is the author of A Fierce Hatred of Injustice: Claude McKay's Jamaica and His Poetry of Rebellion (2000), The Struggles of John Brown Russwurm: The Life and Writings of a Pan-Africanist Pioneer, 1799-1851 (2010) and editor with Clive Harris of Inside Babylon: The Caribbean Diaspora in Britain (1993). James won the Gordon K. Lewis Memorial Award for Caribbean Scholarship from the Caribbean Studies Association for Holding Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia. He is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine.

Product details

• Authors: Winston James, James Winston, Claude McKay
• Publisher: Pan macmillan Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.03.2001
• EAN: 9781859847404
• ISBN: 978-1-85984-740-4
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 147 mm x 201 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 365 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Jamaica, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Africa, LITERARY CRITICISM / African, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, American English, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Regional Studies, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Regional / International studies, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets