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BANJO: A Story without a Plot
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BANJO: A Story without a Plot - 1929

by McKay, Claude

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New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1929. Very good plus.. First printing of the second novel by one of the most prominent members of the Harlem Renaissance, adapted into the 1937 J. Elder Wills musical film BIG FELLA starring Paul Robeson and Elisabeth Welch. The story of an African American musician along the Marseille coastline, BANJO is "a sketch of the black personality by a black writer and it pans across a whole range of blackness: West Africans, West Indians, North Americans and the mulattos of the French West Indies" (Jacqueline Kaye, 165). According to Margaret Perry, McKay's "disillusionment with the Harlem Renaissance" (119) comes through in BANJO via the contrast between the two main characters, all itself against a backdrop of French colonialism. A bright copy. 7.5'' x 5''. Original cloth-backed patterned boards. Lacking original dust jacket. Red topstain. 326 pages. Binding with light wear to spine ends, gilt somewhat effaced. Front hinge carefully repaired, with a couple tiny spots of repair to joint. Interior clean.
Used - Very good plus.
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Lincoln Agrippa Daily, known on the 1920s Marseilles waterfront as “Banjo,” prowls the rough waterfront bistros with his drifter friends, drinking, looking for women, playing music, fighting, loving, talking about their homes in Africa, the West Indies, or the American South, and about being black.

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