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Criticism and Contextual Essays

69 Welcome to Claude McKay's Early Poetry (1912-1922): A Digital Collection Welcome
This path points to essays and resources related to the primary texts included on this site (Harlem Shadows as well as the Early Poetry by McKay not included in that collection). Several of the short contextual and interpretive essays below were authored by graduate students in Amardeep Singh and Ed Whitley's Introduction to the Digital Humanities course in the fall of 2015, as part of a class project. 

Amardeep Singh has lightly edited student work, and also added the following materials: "Origins of this Project," "McKay's Early Political Poetry, 1918-1822," "Claude McKay Publication Timeline Up to 1922," and "Interpreting the Network Diagram—Thematic Tags."  

This page has paths:

  1. Claude McKay's Early Poetry (1912-1922) Amardeep Singh
  2. Introduction: About this Site Amardeep Singh

Contents of this path:

  1. Origins of this Project: DH Class Assignment
  2. McKay's Early Political Poetry 1918-1922
  3. Claude McKay Publication Timeline Up To 1922
  4. Interpreting Two Network Diagrams--Thematic Tags, Publication history
  5. Biography
  6. Bibliography
  7. "If We Must Die" in Civil Rights-Era America
  8. "If We Must Die" in England
  9. "If We Must Die" in its Original Context
  10. Claude McKay and the Sonnet Form
  11. The Birds of "Harlem Shadows"
  12. Claude McKay's Queer Poetics: Public Humanities Syllabus
  13. McKay and #BlackLivesMatter
  14. McKay's "America" in 2015
  15. "Exhortation: Summer 1919" in 2015
  16. Claude McKay's Relationship With His Craft
  17. Strangers on the Train: McKay's "On the Road" and Spatial Poetics
  18. McKay's Queer Poetics: Celebrating Male Beauty in "Alfonso, Dressing to Wait at Table"