Banana Bottom
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1933.
First edition, first printing. [viii], 317 pp. Bound in publisher's floral patterned yellow cloth with paper title label to spine; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with fading to spine; toning, soiling and wear to title label. Former owner name and address to front free endpaper, pages toned, light and sporadic notations to text, glue repair evident to rear inner hinge. McKay is most often thought of as a Harlem Renaissance writer, however, he can be viewed with much more complexity as a colonial representative of the black Diaspora, with roots divided between three homelands--his native Jamaica, his colonial mother-country England, and his land of emigration, the United States. Here he writes about a Jamaican girl, Bita Plant, who was adopted and sent to be educated in England by white missionary benefactors. When she returns to her native village of Banana Bottom, she finds her black heritage at odds with her newly acquired culture.
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