Romance in Marseille
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While stowed away on a transatlantic freighter, Lafala is discovered and locked away in an icy-cold closet, resulting in the loss of his frostbitten legs. When his successful lawsuit against the shipping company brings big bucks, Lafala returns to Marseille to resume his affair with Aslima, a Moroccan prostitute. With its scenes of black bodies seeking pleasure and fighting for freedom even when stolen, shipped, and sold for parts, Romance in Marseille explores the heritage of slavery amid a predatory modern economy.

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Weight 0.182 kg
Dimensions 1.4 × 13.1 × 19.7 cm
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Format

Paperback
Language

Pages

208
Publisher

Year Published

2020-5-7
Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10

0143134221
About The Author

Claude McKay was born in Jamaica, and moved to the U.S. in 1912 to study at the Tuskgee Institute. In 1928, he published his most famous novel, Home to Harlem, which won the Harmon Gold Award for Literature. He also published two other novels, Banjo and Banana Bottom, as well as a collection of short stories, Gingertown, two autobiographical books, A Long Way from Home and My Green Hills of Jamaica and a work of non-fiction, Harlem: Negro Metropolis. His Selected Poems was published posthumously, and in 1977 he was named the national poet of Jamaica.

Claude McKay's poetry was one of the great forces in bringing about what is often called the 'Negro Literary Renaissance'
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I loved Claude McKay's Romance in Marseille, so witty and so precise, a little instrument for imagining another kind of modernist history

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