Banjo: A Story Without a Plot
Claude McKay
Jan 1929 · Ecco
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"Lincoln Agrippa Daily ("Banjo"), the thematic figure of McKay's freewheeling novel, doesn't see what slavery has to do with music. He plays the banjo because he likes to, and wants nothing more that to form a little orchestra. He is just one of an international colony of drifters who have settled on the tough waterfront of Mareilles in the 1920s - white men, brown men, black men. It is the blacks McKay centers on here - Banjo, Malty, Ginger, Dengel, Bugsy, Taloufa, Goosey, and even Jake of Home to Harlem. They panhandle by day, and at night they do the rounds of brawling bistros. They drink, look for women, dance, play music, make love, fight, and they talk - about their homes in Senegal, the West Indies, or the South; about Garvey's Back-to-Africa movement; and about being black. Into the group comes a writer, Ray, who rediscovers his African roots and feels at last he belongs to a race "weighted, tested, and poised in the universal scheme" -- Page 4 of cover.
"Lincoln Agrippa Daily ("Banjo"), the thematic figure of McKay's freewheeling novel, doesn't see what slavery has to do with music. He plays the banjo because he likes to, and wants nothing more that to form a little orchestra. He is just one of an international colony of drifters who have settle...
About the author
Claude McKay (1889-1948), born Festus Claudius McKay, is widely regarded as one of the most important literary and political writers of the interwar period and the Harlem Renaissance. Born in Jamaica, he moved to the U.S. in 1912 to study at the Tuskegee Institute. In 1928, he published his most famous novel, Home to Harlem, which won the Harmon Gold Award for Literature. He also published two other novels, Banjo and Banana Bottom, as well as a collection of short stories, Gingertown, two autobiographical books, A Long Way from Home and My Green Hills of Jamaica, and a work of nonfiction, Harlem: Negro Metropolis. His Selected Poems was published posthumously, and in 1977 he was named the national poet of Jamaica.
Claude McKay (1889-1948), born Festus Claudius McKay, is widely regarded as one of the most important literary and political writers of the interwar period and the Harlem Renaissance. Born in Jamaica, he moved to the U.S. in 1912 to study at the Tuskegee Institute. In 1928, he published his most ...
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