Claude McKay (1889-1948)

A selective list of online literary criticism for Claude McKay, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Web Sites

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Literary criticism

Appel, Jacob M. "Claude McKay." "While scholar Alain Locke and novelist James Weldon Johnson attempted to make the Harlem Renaissance palatable to white audiences, Claude McKay rose to prominence as the most militant voice in the African-American literary movement." St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture

Hathaway, Heather. A review of Caribbean Waves. Relocating Claude McKay and Paule Marshall (Indiana Univ. Press, 1999). Reviewed in African American Review, Summer, 2001 by Vera M. Kutzinski

Keller, James R. "'A chafing savage, down the decent street': the politics of compromise in Claude McKay's protest sonnets," in African American Review, Fall, 1994

"Home At Last: The pilgrimage of Claude McKay," Black poet converted to Christianity, by David Goldweber, Commonweal, Sept 10, 1999

Search Findarticles.com, which has addititonal scholarly and critical articles on Claude McKay

A list of works by and about Claude McKay from the San Antonio College libweb

An introduction to Claude McKay from the Academy of American Poets

An introduction to Claude McKay from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the NY Public Library

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