{"id":278874,"date":"2019-06-14T04:54:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T08:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMieWh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmV0aGlvcGlhb2JzZXJ2ZXIuY29tLzIwMTkvMDYvMTQvd3JpdGluZy10aGUtMTk3MHMtaW4tMTk0MS1tY2theXMtY2F1dGlvbmFyeS10YWxlLW9uLXRoZS1ldGhpb3BpYW4tcmV2b2x1dGlvbi_SAQA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-30T11:15:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T15:15:26","slug":"ethiopia-observer-reviewed-claude-mckays-novel-on-harlem-communists-and-ethiopias-1930s-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/278874","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia Observer reviewed Claude McKay\u2019s novel on Harlem, Communists, and Ethiopia\u2019s 1930s crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 14 June 2019 Ethiopia Observer published Fikru Negash Gebrekidan\u2019s review of Claude McKay\u2019s novel Amiable with Big Teeth, written in 1941 and only published in 2017 after a Columbia archive find, and inspired in part by Ethiopian Pan-Africanist Dr. Malaku Bayen.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-601742\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/culture-national-theatre-1280.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Ethiopia Observer reviewed Claude McKay\u2019s novel on Harlem, Communists, and Ethiopia\u2019s 1930s crisis\" \/>\n<p>The review said the Harlem Renaissance novel stages rivalries between racial nationalists and interracial Communists during Italy\u2019s war on Ethiopia, and it read the book as both social history of elite Harlem and a cautionary tale that echoes later Ethiopian revolutionary politics.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as literary-history archive, the Observer essay dates a scholarly Ethiopian reading of McKay\u2019s Ethiopia-themed novel in June 2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ethiopiaobserver.com\/2019\/06\/14\/writing-the-1970s-in-1941-mckays-cautionary-tale-on-the-ethiopian-revolution\/\">Ethiopia Observer<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing the 1970s in 1941: McKay&#8217;s Cautionary Tale on the Ethiopian Revolution&nbsp;&nbsp;Ethiopia ObserverMcKay, Claude. Amiable with Big Teeth: A Novel of the Love Affair Between the Communists and the Poor Black Sheep of Harlem. New York: Penguin Cl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":601742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/culture-national-theatre-1280.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1axY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278874"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755220,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278874\/revisions\/755220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}