Banana Bottom (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Claude McKay
- First Published: 1933
- Type of Plot: Regional romance
- Time of Work: The early 1900’s
- Setting: The country town of Jubilee and the village of Banana Bottom in Jamaica
- Principal Characters: Tabitha (Bita) Plant, Malcolm Craig, Priscilla Craig, Crazy Bow Adair, Hopping Dick, Herald Newton Day, Squire Gensir, Jubban
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Regional fiction
- Subjects: Caribbean, Blacks, Love or romance, Race, Sex or sexuality, Twentieth century, Missions or missionaries, Religion, Rural or country life, Villages
- Locales: Banana Bottom, Jamaica, Jubilee, Jamaica
The Novel
In a series of flashbacks the reader learns that Bita Plant was “seduced” by Crazy Bow Adair (actually, it was a willing sexual union, but the social niceties of Banana Bottom required that a twelve-year-old had to be an unwilling victim); that she was adopted by the Reverends Malcolm and Priscilla Craig, who wanted to demonstrate their ability to transform a wayward black girl into a cultured Christian; that she was educated in England and had visited Europe before returning to Jubilee seven years later.
The Craigs have planned that Bita marry a local...
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