{"product_id":"romance-in-marseille-paperback","title":"Romance in Marseille - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eClaude McKay\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eGary Edward Holcomb\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eWilliam J. Maxwell\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe 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. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA Penguin Classic \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e Editors' Choice\/Staff Pick\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eVulture\u003c\/i\u003e's Ten Best Books of 2020 pick \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBuried in the archive for almost ninety years, Claude McKay's \u003ci\u003eRomance in Marseille\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eRomance in Marseille\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eClaude McKay\u003c\/b\u003e (1889-1948), born Festus Claudius McKay, is widely regarded as one of the most important literary and political writers of the interwar period and the Harlem Renaissance. Born in Jamaica, he moved to the United States in 1912 to study at the Tuskegee Institute. In 1928, he published his most famous novel, \u003ci\u003eHome to Harlem\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Harmon Gold Award for Literature. He also published two other novels \u003ci\u003eBanjo \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Banana Bottom\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as a collection of short stories, \u003ci\u003eGingertown\u003c\/i\u003e, two autobiographical books, \u003ci\u003eA Long Way from Home\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMy Green Hills of Jamaica\u003c\/i\u003e, and a work of nonfiction, \u003ci\u003eHarlem: Negro Metropolis\u003c\/i\u003e. His \u003ci\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e was published posthumously, and in 1977 he was named the national poet of Jamaica. In 2009, his lost manuscript for the 1930s novel \u003ci\u003eAmiable with Big Teeth\u003c\/i\u003e was discovered among the archived papers of Samuel Roth at Columbia University, and was published for the first time in 2017 by Penguin Classics. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eGary Edward Holcomb \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eClaude McKay, Code Name Sasha: Queer Black Marxism and the Harlem Renaissance\u003c\/i\u003e (2007) and is the coeditor of \u003ci\u003eHemingway and the Black Renaissance\u003c\/i\u003e (2012). \u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam J. Maxwell \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of the American Book Award-winning \u003ci\u003eF.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover's Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature\u003c\/i\u003e (2015) and \u003ci\u003eNew Negro, Old Left: African-American Writing and Communism Between the Wars\u003c\/i\u003e (1999). He is the editor of the first-ever edition of McKay's \u003ci\u003eComplete Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (2004) and of \u003ci\u003eJames Baldwin: The FBI File\u003c\/i\u003e (2017).\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.7 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 11, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52403083968817,"sku":"9780143134220","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0958\/3486\/5969\/files\/b0J6Z0tMWWtUalFOVVZ3cy9kMzY3QT09.webp?v=1768912248","url":"https:\/\/www.welibooks.com\/products\/romance-in-marseille-paperback","provider":"Welibooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}