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- Title
"A WOMAN IS A CONJUNCTION" The Ends of Improvisation in Claude McKay's Banjo: A Story without a Plot.
- Authors
Reed, Anthony
- Abstract
An essay is presented on the novel "Banjo: A Story Without a Plot" of the Jamaican-American writer Claude McKay in 1929. It states that the scenes in the novel about drinking and sex are oriented in the forms of aesthetic experience without alienable value. In addition, men performs the authentic culture while the function of women is more on being ambiguous. Moreover, the expression of being an African-American is a form of critical primitivism.
- Subjects
BANJO: A Story Without a Plot (Book); PRIMITIVISM in literature; MCKAY, Claude, 1890-1948; STORY plots; AFRICAN Americans; SOCIALISM &; culture; HUMAN sexuality in literature
- Publication
Callaloo, 2013, Vol 36, Issue 3, p758
- ISSN
0161-2492
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1353/cal.2013.0156