Review: Banjo
Avis d'utilisateur - Dylan Suher - GoodreadsIt took me a while to get into this; I think McKay needs the surrogate of Ray to comfortably represent the subjects of the novel and indulge in the considerable speechifying to which he is prone. But ... Consulter l'avis complet
Review: Banjo
Avis d'utilisateur - Xiaomin Zu - GoodreadsA pretty pleasant read, if you don't mind the intolerable macho tropes ... Consulter l'avis complet
Review: Banjo
Avis d'utilisateur - Jasmine Ames - GoodreadsRead for My Harlem Renaissance class as well.... More difficult and less intriguing book compared to the other ones we read this semester. But if one is to teach this book for a class unit it would be ... Consulter l'avis complet
Review: Banjo
Avis d'utilisateur - AlexWatson - GoodreadsA good teacher should profitably teach this in the right AP setting. Marks a bold contrast to some of the more tired American novels of the 1920s, while still contemporaneous with them and thus ... Consulter l'avis complet
Review: Banjo
Avis d'utilisateur - John - GoodreadsA picaresque work that follows the "beach boys," a group of diapora black men (from the Caribbean, US, and Africa) in Marseilles in the 1920s. McKay ultimately uses the novel as a way to suggest that ... Consulter l'avis complet
Review: Banjo
Avis d'utilisateur - Dave - GoodreadsThere's a lot of complexity in this McKay volume. If only he placed emphasis on conciseness :) At the very least, the interplay between Ray, Banjo, and the rest of the gang bankrupts monolithic images of black identity; an important job given our reductive envisioning of the New Negro aesthetics. Consulter l'avis complet
Review: Banjo
Avis d'utilisateur - Ruth - GoodreadsBanjo is a masterpiece of lyric prose. I can't do Claude McKay any more justice than to quote him. This passage follows a description of a band in an alley-way dive bar playing a song called "Shake ... Consulter l'avis complet
Review: Banjo
Avis d'utilisateur - Taylor Brubaker - GoodreadsGood expat situation. hedonism vs. a kind of egalitarian racial deontology. Consulter l'avis complet
Review: Banjo
Avis d'utilisateur - Liz - GoodreadsI wanted to give up on this book several times. I found the dialect of the novel nearly impossible to get through, and without classroom discussions would not have appreciated the work nearly as much. Consulter l'avis complet
