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Romance in Marseille

• Claude McKay • ISBN 9780143134220

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Romance in Marseille

• Claude McKay • ISBN-13 9780143134220

ISBN-10 0143134221

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ISBN 9780143134220 • Completeness 51

Cover quality: good

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The pioneering novel of physical disability, transatlantic travel, and Black international politics. A vital document of Black modernism and one of the earliest overtly queer fictions in the African American tradition. Published for the first time. Buried in the archive for almost ninety years, Claude McKay's Romance in Marseille traces the adventures of a rowdy troupe of dockworkers, prostitutes, and political organ

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Publisher: Claude McKayPages: 224

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Contributor: the time the boat docksContributor: the once-nimble dancer loses both of his lower legsContributor: emerging from life-saving surgery as what hMovement: Modernism

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Category: ClassicsCategory: DisabilitiesCategory: Harlem RenaissanceCategory: JamaicanCategory: Jazz AgeCategory: Lgbtqia+Category: Niggas In ParisCategory: (penguin)

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