Banjo: A Story Without a PlotHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, 1929 - 326 pages "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. |
Table des matières
The Ditch | 3 |
The Breakwater | 18 |
ш Malty Turned Down | 27 |
Hard Feeding | 38 |
Jelly Roll | 45 |
SECOND PART | 59 |
Meetingup | 61 |
The Fluteboy | 83 |
X1 Everybody Doing It | 133 |
Bugsys Chinese Pie | 148 |
Bugsy Comes Back at Banjo | 166 |
Telling Jokes | 177 |
White Terror | 188 |
The Blue Cinema | 199 |
Breakingup | 219 |
xvш Banjos Return | 227 |
A Carved Carrot | 93 |
Taloufas Shirttail | 101 |
Storytelling | 114 |
Lonesome Blue Again | 235 |
xxш Shake That Thing Again | 280 |
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Blacks in Eden: The African-American Novel's First Century J. Lee Greene Aucun aperçu disponible - 1996 |
Black Cosmopolitanism: Racial Consciousness and Transnational Identity in ... Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo Affichage d'extraits - 2005 |