Banana Bottom (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Claude McKay
- First Published: 1933
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: The early 1900’s
- Setting: Jubilee and Banana Bottom, both in Jamaica
- 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
Characters Discussed
Tabitha (Bita) Plant, a Jamaican village girl adopted and educated by the Craigs, who are British missionaries. At the age of twelve, she had her first sexual experience, to which she was a willing partner; propriety required that it be represented as rape. Accordingly, when adopted, she is sent to Europe for seven years to be transformed into a dark- skinned Briton of Calvinist outlook, a proper model for the local villagers. She rejects hypocrisy, enjoys sensuality, identifies with folk institutions and beliefs, and adopts a philosophy and lifestyle that...
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