Gary Edward Holcomb is a professor of African American studies at Ohio University. He is the author of Claude McKay, Code Name Sasha: Queer Black Marxism and the Harlem Renaissance (University Press of Florida, 2007), co-editor with William J. Maxwell of McKay’s circa 1929–33 novel Romance in Marseille (Penguin Classics, 2020), and co-editor with Brooks E. Hefner of Claude McKay: The Letters in Exile, forthcoming from Yale University Press in Spring 2025.
Gary Edward Holcomb
Articles
Zeal, Wit, and Fury: The Queer Black Modernism of Claude McKay
Gary Edward Holcomb considers the suppressed legacy of Claude McKay’s two “lost” novels, “Amiable with Big Teeth” and “Romance in Marseille.”
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