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Title: Banana Bottom (Harvest Book, Hb 273) by Claude McKay ISBN: 0-15-610650-7 Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: 01 April, 1974 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)
Rating: 3
Summary: Brought black West Indian literature to bear on world scale
Comment: This book, while not a great work of literature, is notable for its ground breaking role in bringing black West-Indian writing to the attention of literati across the world. The plot is somewhat forced, with deus ex machina resolutions and an often painfully obvious didacticism throughout. McKay does lovingly detail early 1900's Jamaica, where he lived for the bulk of his young life, and the setting is vivid, if a bit heavy-handed. McKay was an adherent of Primitivsm insofar as he believed that black people should work to maintain a grounding in their atavistic roots at the same time that they absorb and learn from Western/Europeanized culture. "Banana Bottom" is his most successful attempt at integrating this ideology into his prose. The story is about a young black Jamaican girl named Bita who, sent to live with white missionaries at an early age, is commissioned to spend seven years at an English boarding school where it is expected that she will learn "proper" comportment and "civilized" modes of thinking. When Bita returns she has trouble integrating herself into the black community of her hometown, Banana Bottom, and ends up rejecting the Europeanization that was forced upon her in favor of asserting her independance with a return to her "roots." The West Indies have since produced better reads, but this book is enjoyable, and should please anyone looking to find out where McKay, commonly (and somewhat fallaciously) considered a progenitor of the Harlem Rennaissance, held his true allegiances. It is a must for anyone interested in anglophone post-colonial literature.
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Title: A Long Way from Home by Claude McKay ISBN: 0156531453 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1970 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: Annie John : A Novel by Jamaica Kincaid ISBN: 0374525102 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: 30 June, 1997 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Banjo: A Story Without a Plot (Harvest Book) by Claude McKay ISBN: 0156106752 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1970 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Home to Harlem (Northeastern Library of Black Literature) by Claude McKay ISBN: 1555530249 Publisher: Northeastern University Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1987 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: In the Castle of My Skin (Ann Arbor Paperbacks) by George Lamming ISBN: 0472064681 Publisher: UMP Pub. Date: 01 March, 1991 List Price(USD): $16.15 |
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