Claude McKay's Early Poetry (1911-1922): A Digital Collection

Works Cited

This Works Cited was compiled by Amardeep Singh. 

(Also see the earlier site Bibliography, with a list of Works by Claude McKay. That document was compiled partly by students)



Cooper, Wayne F. Claude McKay, Rebel Sojourner in the Harlem Renaissance. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996. 

Hoagwood, Terence. "Claude McKay's 'Harlem Shadows.'" The Explicator, 68:1, 51-54, 2009. 

Holcomb, Claude McKay: Code Name Sasha. Queer Black Marxism and the Harlem Renaissance. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2007. 

Krasner, David. "The Scene of Harlem Cabaret: Race, Sexuality, Performance." Modernism/Modernity 17:2, April 2010, pp. 445-446. 

McKay, Claude A Long Way From Home. Edited and with and Introduction by Gene Andrew Jarrett. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. 

McKay, Claude. Complete Poems. Edited and with an Introduction by William J. Maxwell. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2008. 

McKible, Adam and Suzanne W. Churchill. "Introduction: In Conversation: The Harlem Renaissance and the New Modernist Studies." Modernism/Modernity 20:3, September 2013, pp. 427-431. 

Ramesh, Kotti Sree and Kandula Nirupa Rani. Claude McKay: The Literary identity from Jamaica to Harlem and Beyond. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc. Publishers.

Smethurst, James. "The Red is East: Claude McKay and the New Black Radicalism of the Twentieth Century." American Literary History 21:2, Summer 2009, pp. 355-367. 

Tilley, Tyron. Claude McKay: A Black Poet's Struggle for Identity. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1992. 

Tuggle, Lindsay. "'A love so fugitive and so complete': Recovering the Queer Subtext of Claude McKay's 'Harlem Shadows.'" The Space Between, Volume IV:1, 2008. pp. 65-81.