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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.”...
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.