Romance in Marseille

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"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"--

subjects: American literature,  Fiction, african american, historical,  France, fiction,  New York Times reviewed,  Fiction, african american & black, historical,  Sailors,  Fiction,  Stevedores,  Imperialism,  Harbors,  Sex workers,  Sexual minorities,  Gender expression,  Nineteen twenties,  People with disabilities