Welcome to Claude McKay’s Marseille Harlem. The American writer arrived in the French colonial city in the 1920s, frequented dockers and prostitutes and recounted their daily life in his novels. Banjo And Romance in Marseilles. Poetic and political writing on the black condition, a precursor to the work of Sembène Ousmane.
A signed long format report Daphne Gastaldi where we meet a dispassionate researcher, a director crazy about jazz, a reckless editor and a founding journalist of the Claude MacKay collective, his name is Armando Coxe and the discovery of the manuscript Romance in Marseillesit’s him !
Show originally aired in September 2022.
To read :
- Romance in Marseilles And Banjothe two Marseille novels by Claude McKay
- such a long way, the autobiography of Claude McKay, ed. Heliotropisms (2021)
- The black docker, by Sembene Ousmane, ed. African Presence (1956)
- African hawkers in Marseille: a century of adventures, Sylvie Bredeloup and Brigitte Bertoncello, ed. Otherwise (2004)
To have :
- Claude McKay, from Harlem to Marseillesdirected by Mathieu Verdeil (2021)
- And the old port was condemneddirected by Jean Dasque (1973)
