Letters in Exile: Transnational Journeys of a Harlem Renaissance Writer Kris Ripper Both are too willing to

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Letters in Exile: Transnational Journeys of a Harlem Renaissance Writer Kris Ripper Both are too willing toA collection of private correspondence from one of the Harlem Renaissance's brightest and most radical voices The Jamaican born, queer author Claude McKay (1890 1948) was a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance. His 1919 poem "If We Must Die" expressed a revolutionary vision for militant Black protest art, while his novels, including Home to Harlem, Banjo, and Banana Bottom, described ordinary Black life in lyrical prose. Yet for all that McKay