A Long Way from Home

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A Long Way from Home is Claude McKay’s 1937 autobiographical work recounting his life as a Jamaican-born writer and activist navigating race, politics, and exile in the early 20th century.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf autobiography
nonfiction book
author Claude McKay
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
depictsTimePeriod early 20th century
describes Black intellectual life in the early 20th century
Claude McKay’s experiences with racism
Claude McKay’s political evolution
Claude McKay’s travels abroad
leftist political circles
genre autobiography
political memoir
travel writing
hasNarrativePerspective first-person
hasTheme colonialism and its legacies
migration
political disillusionment
racial identity
search for belonging
language English
literaryMovement Harlem Renaissance
mainSubject Claude McKay
Harlem Renaissance
Jamaican diaspora
communism
exile
politics
race relations
notableFor account of a Black Caribbean writer in global leftist movements
critique of racism in the United States and Europe
insider view of the Harlem Renaissance
partOfAuthor’sOeuvre Claude McKay bibliography
publicationYear 1937
relatedWork Banana Bottom
Banjo
Home to Harlem
setting Europe
Harlem
surface form: Harlem, New York City

Jamaica
Soviet Union
United States of America
surface form: United States

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Claude McKay notableWork A Long Way from Home
A Long Way from Home title A Long Way from Home
A Lucky Life Interrupted relatedWork A Long Way from Home