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  <abstract>"A Long Way From Home" by Claude McKay is an autobiography published in 1937. The book chronicles McKay's journey from Jamaica to America and his travels through Europe, Russia, and North Africa during the 1920s and 1930s. As a pioneering Black poet and "rebel sojourner," McKay offers a candid exposé of the Harlem Renaissance and the radical Left politics of the era. The narrative explores themes of racial identity, artistic integrity, and political consciousness, capturing the challenges of maintaining an authentic voice as a Black writer navigating early twentieth-century America's literary world and racial tensions.</abstract>
  <note>Release date is 2023-09-27</note>
  <note>Tim Lindell, Graeme Mackreth and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)</note>
  <note>Originally published: United States: Lee Furman Inc., 1937</note>
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