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Diaspora Cruises: Queer Black Proletarianism in Claude McKay's A Long Way from Home
- MFS Modern Fiction Studies
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 49, Number 4, Winter 2003
- pp. 714-745
- 10.1353/mfs.2003.0072
- Article
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Abstract
My analysis of A Long Way from Home (1937) subjects the memoir's closeted narrative to a poem collected in one of McKay's first publications, Constab Ballads (1912) as well as passages from his novel Home to Harlem (1928). A Long Way from Home takes steps to suppress its queer voice and proletarian presence. Though shadowy, such imprints may be traced-despite McKay's care in suppressing the entangled presences of "the love that dare not speak its name" and his onetime persistent dedication to Communism.
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