Transhistoricizing Claude McKay’s Romance in Marseille
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20106705 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gary Edward Holcomb, William J Maxwell |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-11 |
| Publication date | 2021-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | English Language Notes (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-8282 • E-ISSN: 2573-3575 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00138282-8814950 |
| OpenAlex | W3142889236 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
s Romance in Marseille, a novel that had idled in an archive for nearly ninety years.1 We believe that the debut of this work of fiction, until recently effectively unknown, may stimulate several critical areas, not only Harlem Renaissance studies but also dialogues across queer, disability, feminist, Marxist, postcolonial, Afro-Orientalist, Black Atlantic, and transatlantic modernist scholarship. As we hope the reader of this special issue will see, McKay's circa 1929-33 text also offers a fecund analytic subject to critics working in Afropessimisim, primitivism, reparations, and surveillance, as well as such emergent approaches as maritime modernism and the politics of pleasure
Art · Art history · Literature · Psychoanalysis · Romance · Canadian Identity and History · History · Psychology · Race, History, and American Society · Short Stories in Global Literature
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |