Ebook {Epub PDF} Banana Bottom by Claude McKay

 · Banana Bottom, the final of his three novels, published in , is set in his native Jamaica, which he left at age 15, never to see again. And it reads almost as a love story to the island. Banana Bottom tells the story of Bita Plant,a young, black girl, who after being seduced and ‘spoiled’, is adopted by white missionaries and sent to England for 7 years of refinement and a proper www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 3 mins.  · A Jamaican girl, Bita Plant, who was adopted and sent to be educated in England by white missionary benefactors, returns to her native village of Banana Bottom and finds her black heritage at war with her newly acquired www.doorway.ru: Claude McKay.  · Banana Bottom is the story of a young Jamaican woman’s discovery of her country, her people, and herself. The novel begins with the return to Jamaica of twenty-two-year-old Tabitha “Bita.

Choose items to buy together. This item: Banana Bottom (Harvest Book, Hb ) by Claude McKay Paperback. $ In Stock. Ships from and sold by www.doorway.ru FREE Shipping on orders over $ Lucy: A Novel. by Jamaica Kincaid Paperback. BANANA BOTTOM' is of a different order from Claude McKay's other books. Some of the stories in "Gingertown," it is true, are also laid in Jamaica. Banana Bottom by Claude McKay is an interesting Caribbean and post-colonial take on the traditional marriage plot. Black girl educated in England returns to urban/rural Jamaica. McKay's feeling for the instincts, for the value of sensual and social spontaneity, without discounting the sensitizing effect of books and learning, is right up my street.

There are several minor characters in Banana Bottom who reflect McKay at his comic best, such as the gossipy Sister Phibby Patroll and the insufferable Herald Newton Day, whose downfall is. Banana Bottom by Claude McKay, , Pluto Press edition, Paperback. Banana Bottom is the story of a young Jamaican woman’s discovery of her country, her people, and herself. The novel begins with the return to Jamaica of twenty-two-year-old Tabitha “Bita.