LITERATURE QUESTIONS
AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE
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Question
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The fact that Claude McKay visited Russia in 1922 exemplifies the following theme of Modernism:
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Collectivism versus the authority of the individual.
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The wearing away of traditional class structures.
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The impact of WWI and the 1918 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia.
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The disassociated, anomic self.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -When Claude McKay was writing his poetry, free verse was very much in fashion, and many of his peers in the emerging modernist movement were writing their poems in this form (among McKay’s contemporaries were poets like Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, and H.D.).
Detailed explanation-2: -Claude McKay, born Festus Claudius McKay in Sunny Ville, Jamaica in 1889, was a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance, a prominent literary movement of the 1920s. His work ranged from vernacular verse celebrating peasant life in Jamaica to poems that protested racial and economic inequities.
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