C’est traduit de l'anglais ( États-Unis) par Marie Brazilier & Romain Guillou.
Éditions Nada.
Ce bouquin est génial !
C’est ma #VendrediLecture !
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‘The jobless should lead the attack’: a radical Jamaican journalist in 1920s London.
Economic insecurity, race riots, incendiary media…
Claude McKay was one of the few Black journalists covering a turbulent period that sounds all too familiar to us today.
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Claude McKay: The Jamaican Writer Who Fought Racism and Injustice in 1920s London
This article explores the life and activism of Claude McKay, a Jamaican poet and journalist who became a key voice against racial and social injustice in the early 20th century. Working in the United States during the violent Red Summer of 1919, McKay was deeply affected by the racial hatred he witn... [More info]
“…the jobless should lead the attack on the bastilles, the bonded warehouses along the docks to solve the question of unemployment.” (1920)
If We Must Die (1919)
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44694/if-we-must-die
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Today's poem:
The White House
- by Claude McKay
https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/796454575727067136/the-white-house?source=share
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Mardi,
Venez assister à la projection de Claude McKay, de Harlem à Marseille, documentaire réalisé par Matthieu Verdeil, qui retrace la vie de l'écrivain jamaïcain, infatigable vagabond, qui participa aux grandes luttes émancipatrices du début XXe.
Ça se passe à Pol-N, au 11 rue des olivettes à Nantes. On ouvre les portes à 19h30 et la projection démarre à 20h !
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