e-branch
e-branch
Click here to loginLoginView my BookbagMy List - 0HelpHelp
 Home 
 My Account/Renew Loans 
 Community Info 
 KidSearch 
 New Catalogue! 
   
SearchAdvancedBy FormatBy NumberMy SearchesCan't Find it?Find Magazine Articles & moreProblems?
Search:    Refine Search  
> You're searching: Halifax Public Libraries
 
Item Information
 
  Publisher Weekly Review
  More Content
 
 More by this author
 
  •  
    		• McKay, Claude, 1890-1948.
     
     Subjects
     
  •  
    		• Sailors, Black -- Fiction.
     
  •  
    		• West Africans -- France -- Fiction.
     
  •  
    		• Sailors -- Fiction.
     
  •  
    		• Stevedores -- Fiction.
     
  •  
    		• Imperialism -- Fiction.
     
  •  
    		• Harbors -- Fiction.
     
  •  
    		• Sex workers -- Fiction.
     
  •  
    		• Sexual minorities -- Fiction.
     
  •  
    		• Gender expression -- Fiction.
     
  •  
    		• Nineteen twenties -- Fiction.
     
  •  
    		• People with disabilities -- Fiction.
     
  •  
    		• Marseille (France) -- Fiction.
     
     Browse Catalog
      by author:
     
  •  
    		•  McKay, Claude, 1890-1948.
     
      by title:
     
  •  
    		•  Romance in Marseille...
     
      by call number:
     
  •  
    		•  FICTION MCK
     
     Search the Web
     
  •  
    		• McKay, Claude, 1890-1948.
     
  •  
    		• Sailors, Black -- Fiction.
     
  •  
    		• West Africans -- France -- Fiction.
     
  •  
    		• Sailors -- Fiction.
     
  •  
    		• Stevedores -- Fiction.
     
  •  
    		• Imperialism -- Fiction.
     
  •  
    		• Harbors -- Fiction.
     
  •  
    		• Sex workers -- Fiction.
     
  •  
    		• Sexual minorities -- Fiction.
     
  •  
    		• Gender expression -- Fiction.
     
  •  
    		• Nineteen twenties -- Fiction.
     
  •  
    		• People with disabilities -- Fiction.
     
  •  
    		• Marseille (France) -- Fiction.
     
     
     MARC Display
    Romance in Marseille / Claude McKay ; edited and with an introduction by Gary Holcomb and William J. Maxwell.
    by McKay, Claude, 1890-1948.
    View full image
    Penguin Books, 2020.
    Call #:FICTION MCK
    Subjects
  • Sailors, Black -- Fiction.
    •  
  • West Africans -- France -- Fiction.
    •  
  • Sailors -- Fiction.
    •  
  • Stevedores -- Fiction.
    •  
  • Imperialism -- Fiction.
    •  
  • Harbors -- Fiction.
    •  
  • Sex workers -- Fiction.
    •  
  • Sexual minorities -- Fiction.
    •  
  • Gender expression -- Fiction.
    •  
  • Nineteen twenties -- Fiction.
    •  
  • People with disabilities -- Fiction.
    •  
  • Marseille (France) -- Fiction.
    • Series
  • Penguin classics.
    • ISBN: 
    9780143134220 (trade pbk)
    Description: 
    li, 165 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
    Bibliography: 
    Includes bibliographical references.
    Summary: 
    "The pioneering novel of physical disability, transatlantic travel, and black international politics. A vital document of black modernism and one of the earliest overtly queer fictions in the African American tradition. Published for the first time. Buried in the archive for almost ninety years, Claude McKay's Romance in Marseille traces the adventures of a rowdy troupe of dockworkers, prostitutes, and political organizers -- collectively straight and queer, disabled and able-bodied, African, European, Caribbean, and American. Set largely in the culture-blending Vieux Port of Marseille at the height of the Jazz Age, the novel takes flight along with Lafala, an acutely disabled but abruptly wealthy West African sailor. While stowing away on a transatlantic freighter, Lafala is discovered and locked in a frigid closet. Badly frostbitten by the time the boat docks, the once-nimble dancer loses both of his lower legs, emerging from life-saving surgery as what he terms 'an amputated man.' Thanks to an improbably successful lawsuit against the shipping line, however, Lafala scores big in the litigious United States. Feeling flush after his legal payout, Lafala doubles back to Marseille and resumes his trans-African affair with Aslima, a Moroccan courtesan. With its scenes of black bodies fighting for pleasure and liberty even when stolen, shipped, and sold for parts, McKay's novel explores the heritage of slavery amid an unforgiving modern economy. This first-ever edition of Romance in Marseille includes an introduction by McKay scholars Gary Edward Holcomb and William J. Maxwell that places the novel within both the 'stowaway era' of black cultural politics and McKay's challenging career as a star and skeptic of the Harlem Renaissance."--Amazon.
    Genre: 
    Historical fiction.
    Political fiction.
    Literary fiction.
    Black fiction.
    Other authors: 
    Holcomb, Gary Edward.
    Maxwell, William J. (College teacher)
    Holds: 
    0
    Add to my list 
    Copy/Holding information
    No Item Information


    Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M
     
    © 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.
    Horizon Information Portal