A Fierce Hatred of Injustice
Claude McKay's Jamaica and His Poetry of Rebellion
by Winston James

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Claude McKay remains one of the most influential intellectuals of the African diaspora. Best remembered for his extraordinary poetry, his achievement in verse has been widely analysed and praised. Yet in the welter of discussion about McKay, little has been said about his early writing in Jamaican. Two collections from the period, Songs of Jamaica and Constab Ballads, are known about but little known, and his poems for the Jamaican press, most of which have never been anthologized, are even less known, let alone studied.

In A Fierce Hatred of Injustice, Winston James elegantly redresses this omission. Through a subtle and detailed consideration of McKay's formative years on the island, James reviews the themes and politics of poetry which McKay began writing at the age of ten. James demonstrates that McKay's radicalism in exile can not be properly understood without an appreciation of the poet's Jamaican political formation, which a study of McKay's early poetry elucidates. Above all, James focuses on McKay's pioneering use of Jamaican creole, revealing the way in which this laid a foundation for subsequent work by writers such as Louise Bennett, Linton Kwesi Johnson and Michael Smith. The volume concludes with a comprehensive anthology of McKay's early poems together with a little-known interview the poet gave in 1911, a comic sketch of Jamaican peasant life in which he wrote about his experience in the Kingston police force.

A Fierce Hatred of Injustice
Claude McKay's Jamaica and His Poetry of Rebellion
by Winston James

ISBN: 9781859847404
ISBN-10: 1859847404
Publisher: Verso
Publication Date: 2001
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages, 5.75" x 8"
Book Type: New Bargain Book, No remainder mark.

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