Description
After seven years abroad, Tabitha “Bita” Plant returns to Jamaica in a story that feels both intimate and speculative—an imagined homecoming for a self-exiled author and a young woman searching for belonging. Raised under the care of white missionary benefactors and shaped by life in England, Bita must navigate the complicated ties of love, loyalty, and power as the world around her shifts toward conflict. As her past collides with her present, the novel explores how identity is formed—and contested—by race, class, and the promises of “benevolence.” With the lyrical urgency that made Claude McKay a defining voice of the Harlem Renaissance, Banana Bottom blends romance and war into a moving meditation on return, self-determination, and what it truly means to come home.
Available Editions
paperback
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Published Jan 1, 1974
315 pages
ISBN: 9780156106504
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Details
First Published
1933
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Banana Bottom by Claude McKay.