Full name: Banjo: A Novel

Author: Claude McKay Year: 1970 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Culture: African-American Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781902934044 9780156106757 1902934040

Lincoln Agrippa Daily, known to his drifter cohorts on the 1920s Marseille waterfront as Banjo, passes his days panhandling and dreaming of starting his own little band. At night Banjo and his buddies prowl the rough waterfront bistros, drinking, looking for women, playing music, fighting, loving, and talking - about their homes in Senegal, the West Indies, or the American South; about Garvey's Back-to-Africa Movement; about being black. When Ray, a writer, joins the group, it triggers Banjo's rediscovery of his African roots and his feeling that, at last, he belongs to a race weighted, tested and poised in the universal scheme. Similar books: Plum Bun by Jessie Redmon Fauset Quicksand and Passing by Nella Larsen Infants Of The Spring by Wallace Thurman Rite of Passage by Richard Wright The Blacker the Berry by Wallace Thurman Ugly Ways by Tina McElroy Ansa Home to Harlem by Claude McKay The Narrows by Ann Petry The Outsider by Richard Wright The Sport of the Gods by Paul Laurence Dunbar Passing by Nella Larsen Cane by Jean Toomer Just Above My Head by James Baldwin The Chosen Place, The Timeless People by Paule Marshall The Street by Ann Petry