Romance in Marseille
Popularity 14
"Buried in the archive for almost ninety years, Claude McKay's Romance in Marseille traces the adventures of a rowdy troupe of dockworkers, prostitutes, and political organizers--collectively straight and queer, disabled and able-bodied, African, European, Caribbean, and American. Set largely in the culture-blending Vieux Port of Marseille at the height of the Jazz Age, the novel takes flight along with Lafala, an acutely disabled but abruptly wealthy West African sailor"--
American literatureFiction, african american, historicalFrance, fictionNew York Times reviewedFiction, african american & black, historicalSailorsFictionStevedoresImperialismHarborsSex workersSexual minorities