Claude McKay 
Home to Harlem [EPUB ebook] 

Claude Mc Kay’s 1928 novel,
Home to Harlem, is one of the most important works of the Harlem Renaissance. With raw, unflinching candor, Mc Kay explores race, identity, love, and loss and gives voice to the plight of young Black men during the Jazz Age. Jake Brown, a Black American soldier and a World War I deserter, returns to Harlem and struggles to find his place in a vibrant working-class community that’s rife with poverty, crime, and racism. He meets various characters, including a displaced Haitian intellectual, prostitutes, hustlers, and jazz musicians, and he experiences everything from love and joy to despair and violence.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

First Part

I Going Back Home

II Arrival 

III Zeddy 

IV Congo Rose 

V On the Job Again 

VI Myrtle Avenue 

VII Zeddy’s Rise and Fall 

VIII The Raid of the Baltimore 

IX Jake Makes a Move 



Second Part

X The Railroad 

XI Snowstorm in Pittsburgh 

XII The Treeing of the Chef 

XIII One Night in Philly 

XIV Interlude 

XV Relapse 

XVI A Practical Prank 

XVII He Also Loved 

XVIII A Farewell Feed 



Third Part

XIX Spring in Harlem 

XX Felice 

XXI The Gift That Billy Gave