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“The Beauty of Other Horizons”: Sartorial Self-Fashioning in Claude McKay's Banjo: A Story without a Plot

ABERNETHY, GRAEME

Journal of American studies, 2014-05, Vol.48 (2), p.445-460 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press

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Title:
“The Beauty of Other Horizons”: Sartorial Self-Fashioning in Claude McKay's Banjo: A Story without a Plot
Author: ABERNETHY, GRAEME
Subjects: 20th century ; African Americans ; American history ; Attractiveness ; Banjos ; Beaches ; Beauty ; Citizenship ; Ditches ; Homelessness ; Literary criticism ; Love ; Mckay, Claude ; McKay, Claude (1890-1948) ; National Identity ; Novels ; Proletariat ; Smethurst, James ; Suits ; Transnationalism ; Twentieth Century ; U.S.A ; White people ; Writers
Is Part Of: Journal of American studies, 2014-05, Vol.48 (2), p.445-460
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Description: This article considers whether the novel Banjo's sailors and vagabonds, described by James Smethurst as proponents of “a transnational proletarian blackness,” provide a Harlem Renaissance-era alternative to Monica L. Miller's Harlem-centred notion of “subversive dandyism.” Indeed, author Claude McKay – a Jamaican who spent much of the 1920s and 1930s abroad before taking American citizenship in 1940 – has come increasingly to be regarded, as by the novelist Caryl Phillips, as one among numerous twentieth-century “writers for whom the national label is unhelpful if we wish to see the full nature of their achievement.” McKay declared that “a patriot loves not his nation, but the spiritual meannesses of his life of which he has created a frontier wall to hide the beauty of other horizons.” This article addresses Banjo's representation of sartorial self-fashioning as part of this critique of narrowly national identities.
Publisher: Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press
Language: English

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“The Beauty of Other Horizons”: Sartorial Self-Fashioning in Claude McKay's Banjo: A Story without a Plot

ABERNETHY, GRAEME

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press

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