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In Jamaica, Bita Plant is adopted by white missionaries and sent to school in England, Seven years later, she returns to her home village, Banana Bottom. Rejecting her European education, Bita is emotionally drawn to her Black culture. Her search for independence coincides with the rediscovery of her roots.
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Review:
?There is abundant humor in this book and pathos: there is melodrama and the quiet charm of introspective analysis, and above all there is entertainment? Saturday Review ?Claude McKay?s mellowest book... His rich, robust humor is undiminished? Nation
About the Author:
Claude McKay travelled to New York from Jamaica in 1912. In addition to his novels Banjo and Banana Bottom, he is perhaps most widely remembered for his poems, of which the most significant collection is Harlem Shadows (1922). James Weldon Johnson remarked that "Claude McKay's poetry was one of the great forces in bringing about what is often called the 'Negro Literary Renaissance.'" McKay completed his autobiography, A Long Way from Home, in 1937. He died in 1948.
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- PublisherSerpent's Tail
- Publication date1986
- ISBN 10 1852421290
- ISBN 13 9781852421298
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages316
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