"Life is Real and Life is Earnest": Mike Gold, Claude McKay, and the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

2005 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-73
Author(s):  
Adam McKible
Keyword(s):  
Claude Mckay ◽  
Mike Gold

Claude McKay: Rebel Sojourner in the Harlem Renaissance: A Biography

1987 ◽  
Vol 74 (3) ◽  
pp. 1083 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Stein ◽  
Wayne F. Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Harlem Renaissance ◽  
Claude Mckay ◽  
The Harlem Renaissance

scholarly journals “A Black Man Replies”: Claude McKay’s Challenge to the British Left

Lateral ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Donlon
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Black Men ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
World War ◽  
White Supremacist ◽  
Claude Mckay ◽  
Letter To The Editor ◽  
History Of ◽  
Black Man ◽  
The Moment

Anne Donlon delves into the history of the British Left after World War I to assert the significance of the Black and feminist interventions of Claude McKay and Sylvia Pankhurst. Donlon centers the publication of “A Black Man Replies,” McKay’s letter to the editor published in Pankhurst’s newspaper The Worker’s Dreadnought, against white supremacist logics mobilized by prominent 1920s leftists that contributed to the reestablishment of policing of and violence against black men. Donlon’s archival discoveries weave together biography, material cultural analysis, and histories of trans-Atlantic activism, and, in the process, reveal the labor of building radical intersectional solidarity that came before and followed the moment of “A Black Man Replies.”

Douglas, Aaron (1899–1979)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catrina Hill
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Langston Hughes ◽  
African Art ◽  
Illustrated Books ◽  
Claude Mckay ◽  
New York Public Library ◽  
Tribal Art ◽  
American Artists ◽  
African American Artists

Aaron Douglas was an African American artist and educator often referred to as the father of "Black Art." He was a leading figure of the artistic movement known as the Harlem Renaissance. Douglas is best known for his work of the 1920s and 1930s, which featured abstracted silhouettes combined with African tribal art and ancient Egyptian profile heads. European artists like Matisse, Modigliani and Picasso had been influenced by African tribal art for decades, but Douglas was among the first African American artists to blend African art with modern abstraction. Douglas produced illustrations for such magazines as The Crisis, Survey Graphic and Opportunity along with co-founding the short-lived Fire!! A Quarterly Journal Devoted to the Younger Negro Artists. He also illustrated books by several well-known literary figures, including Alain Locke, James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, and Claude McKay. He is recognized for several public murals, including the Birth o’ the Blues at the Sherman Hotel in Chicago, Evolution of Negro Dance at the Harlem YMCA, and Aspects of Negro Life at the 135th Street Branch of the New York Public Library. As a professor of fine art Douglas encouraged generations of African American artists to create their own modern Black aesthetic.

Dos Passos, John (1896–1970)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian Hanna
Keyword(s):  
Stream Of Consciousness ◽  
Urban Experience ◽  
American Modernism ◽  
Italian Futurism ◽  
Blaise Cendrars ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Greenwich Village ◽  
John Howard ◽  
American Society ◽  
Mike Gold

John Dos Passos was an American writer best known for his ‘contemporary chronicles’ of American life. His early novels, including Manhattan Transfer (1925) and the U.S.A. trilogy — The 42nd Parallel (1930), Nineteen Nineteen (1932), and The Big Money (1936) — are considered classics of American Modernism, offering a complex and multifaceted portrayal of American society from the turn of the century to the Great Depression. The depiction of urban experience in these novels reflects the cinematic montage of Dziga Vertov, the stream-of-consciousness style of James Joyce, and the dynamism and simultaneity of Italian Futurism, among other influences. In addition to writing fiction, Dos Passos was a dramatist, poet, historian, journalist, travel writer, painter, and translator. His first two novels, One Man’s Initiation: 1917 (1920) and Three Soldiers (1921), are harrowing and highly critical accounts based on his experience as an ambulance driver in the First World War. He published a collection of free verse, A Pushcart at the Curb (1922), as well as translations of the modernist poetry of Blaise Cendrars. In the late 1920s he worked briefly as a director, playwright, and set designer at the Vsevolod Meyerhold-inspired New Playwrights’ Theater in Greenwich Village, where his associates included communist writers like Mike Gold and John Howard Lawson.

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