Banana Bottom | Banana Bottom

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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

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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