Amiable With Big Teeth, a novel about a group of activists from this neighborhood, remained unpublished until 2009 when it was discovered by a graduate student at Columbia University. For 10 points each:
[10e] Claude McKay wrote about black sex workers in the titular poem from his collection titled for this neighborhood’s Shadows. A poem by Langston Hughes titled for this neighborhood asks, “what happens to a dream deferred?”
ANSWER: Harlem [accept Harlem Shadows]
[10h] This poem from Harlem Shadows tells the reader “we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack” and responds “let it not be like hogs” to this poem’s title statement.
ANSWER: “If We Must Die”
[10m] McKay also wrote a novel titled for a city in this country in which the sailor Lafala falls in love with Alima. In a James Baldwin novel set in this country, the title character strangles his boss after a gay love affair with David.
ANSWER: France [or French Republic] (The novels are Romance in Marseille and Giovanni’s Room.)
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