Festus Claudius McKay
Festus Claudius McKay (natus Festus Claude McKay, 15 Septembris 1889 ; infarctu cordis mortuus 22 Maii 1948) fuit scriptor et poeta Iamaicanus-Americanus et auctor magni momenti in Renascentia Harlemensi. Quattuor scripsit mythistorias: Home to Harlem (1928), liber optime vendibilis qui Praemium rebus gestis distinctis inter Nigros Gulielmi E. Harmon litteris dicatum abstulit; Banjo (1929); Banana Bottom (1933); et Amiable With Big Teeth: A Novel of the Love Affair between the Communists and the Poor Black Sheep of Harlem (manuscriptum, 1941, nondum editum). McKay etiam protulit congeries poematum; congeriem fabularum brevium (Gingertown, 1932); duos libros autobiographicos, A Long Way from Home (1937) et My Green Hills of Jamaica (post mortem editum); et tractatum sociohistoricum, Harlem: Negro Metropolis (1940). Harlem Shadows, congeries poematum, fuit inter primos libros per Renascentiam Harlemensem editos. Liber Selected Poems post mortem anno 1953 editus est.

Opera selecta

Congeries poematum
Songs of Jamaica (1912)
Constab Ballads (1912)
Spring in New Hampshire and Other Poems (1920)
Harlem Shadows (1922)
The Selected Poems of Claude McKay (1953)
America (1921)

Fictio
Home to Harlem (1928)
Banjo (1929)
Banana Bottom (1933)
Gingertown (1932)

Non fictio
A Long Way from Home (1937)
My Green Hills of Jamaica (1979)
Harlem: Negro Metropolis (1940)

Bibliographia
Generalia
Cooper, Wayne F. 1964. Claude McKay and the New Negro of the 1920's. Phylon 25(3)297–306.
Cooper, Wayne F. 1987. Claude McKay: Rebel Sojourner in the Harlem Renaissance: A Biography. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 0807113107.
Giles, James Richard. 1086. Claude McKay. Bostoniae: Twayne Publishers. ISBN 0805771719.
James, Winston. 2001. A Fierce Hatred of Injustice: Claude McKay's Jamaica and His Poetry of Rebellion. Londinii: Verso. ISBN 9781859847404.
James, Winston. 2003. Becoming the People's Poet: Claude McKay's Jamaican Years, 1889–1912. Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism 13 (Martio):17–45.
Long, Richard A. 1985. Afro-American Writing: An Anthology of Prose and Poetry. Penn State Press. ISBN 0271003766.
Tillery, Tyrone. 1992. Claude McKay: A Black Poet's Struggle for Identity. Amherstiae: University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 0870237624. 

Commentarii in Chicago Defender
1921. Claude McKay, African Poet, Made Co-Editor. The Chicago Defender, editio nationalis, 2 Aprilis. 
1922. McKay Going to Russia. The Chicago Defender, ed. nationalis, 19 Augusti.
1928. Claude McKay, Noted Poet, Author, Once Idol of Russia, Dies Here. The Chicago Defender, 29 Maii.
Johnson, James Weldon. 1928. Claude McKay. The Chicago Defender, ed. nationalis, 3 Martii 3.

Notae

Nexus externi

Biographia et poemata, www.poetry foundation.org (Poetry Foundation)
Prospectus Congeriei Claudii McKay in Bibliotheca Librorum et Manuscriptorum Rarorum Beineckeensi Universitatis Yalensis, drs.library.yale.edu
Umbrae Harlemenses: Traditio Electronica, www.harlemshadows.org

Nati 1889
Mortui 1948
Auctores Anglici
Autobiographi
Historici Civitatum Foederatarum
Homosexualitas
Marxistae
Poetae Afroamericani
Renascentia Harlemensis
Scriptores Civitatum Foederatarum
Scriptores mythistoriarum Civitatum Foederatarum
Scriptores Iamaicae