jeu. 26 mars
|Columbia University New York
screening Claude McKay from Harlem to Marseille
Columbia University Maison Française
Heure et lieu
26 mars 2026, 17:30 – 19:30
Columbia University New York, Columbia University Maison Française
À propos de l'événement
Documentary film by Matthieu Verdeil, 2021, 80 min. In French and English with English subtitles
Q&A with director Matthieu Verdeil and Brent H.Edwards
A thrilling journey in the 1920s, from Marseille to Harlem, via Jamaica, Russia, and Morocco, in the footsteps of the Jamaican-American writer Claude McKay. McKay was a rebellious figure of the Harlem Renaissance, a prominent literary movement of the 1920s -- an unclassifiable author who wandered for more than 10 years in Europe, frequenting the artistic and political avant-gardes. His work ranged from vernacular verse celebrating peasant life in Jamaica to poems that protested racial and economic inequities.
