Banjo; a story without a plot. / By Claude McKay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McKay, Claude, 1890-1948.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Harvest book ; HB 185.

A Harvest book ; HB 185

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stevedores.

Black people.

Marseille (France)--Fiction.

Marseille (France).

Black people--France--Fiction.

Stevedores--Fiction.

Drifters--Fiction.

Drifters.

France.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

viii, 326 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, Inc. 1970.

Summary:

Lincoln Agrippa Daily, known on the 1920s Marseilles waterfront as " Banjo, " prowls the rough waterfront bistros with his drifter friends, drinking, looking for women, playing music, fighting, loving, and talking - about their homes in Africa, the West Indies, or the american South and about being black.

Contents:

First Part. The Ditch; The Breakwater; Malty Turned Down; Hard Feeding; "Jelly Roll"

Second Part. Meeting-up; The Flute-boy; A Carved Carrot; Taloufa's Shirt-tail; Story-telling; Everybody Doing It; Bugsy's Chinese Pie; Bugsy Comes Back at Banjo; Telling Jokes; White Terror; The "Blue Cinema"; Breaking-up

Third Part. Banjo's Return; Lonesome Blue Again; The Rock of Refuge; Official Fists; Reaction; Shake That Thing Again; The Chauffeur's Lot; Banjo's Ace of Spades.

Notes:

Cover design by Ken Braren.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

ISBN:

0156106752

OCLC:

99255