Book review: Claude McKay: The Making of a Black Bolshevik, by Winston James

Owen Walsh

doi:10.14324/111.444.ra.2023.v8.1.004

Book review: Claude McKay: The Making of a Black Bolshevik, by Winston James

Owen Walsh

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The number of Black intellectuals who have enjoyed two-volume biographical studies is few and their names are distinguished. The short list includes David Levering Lewis’s treatment of W. E. B. Du Bois and Arnold Rampersad’s The Life of Langston Hughes. With the publication of Claude McKay: The Making of a Black Bolshevik, Winston James begins his two-volume assessment of this major Jamaican-American poet, novelist and essayist.

Original language	English
Article number	4
Journal	Radical Americas
Volume	8
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.ra.2023.v8.1.004
Publication status	Published - 19 Jul 2023

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