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  <original-publication-year type="integer">1970</original-publication-year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Claude McKay]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Aug 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[On the superficial level ‘Banjo’ is a picaresque story of a group of vagabonds – beach boys who spend their days wandering about the dodgy districts of Marseilles from one bistro to another singing, dancing and drinking.  McKay's descriptions of the port life in 1920’s are lyrical and entici...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65393719">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Banjo is a masterpiece of lyric prose.  I can't do Claude McKay any more justice than to quote him.  This passage follows a description of a band in an alley-way dive bar playing a song called &quot;Shake That Thing&quot;: <br/><br/>&quot;Shake that thing!  In the face of the shadow of Death.  Tre...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10528517">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Never read anything by a Harlem Renaissance writer before, and this is a great one to start with. Seriously, I need to move to France. Like, right now. And even though this was written in the 1920s, the author's observations on race still feel incredibly topical. Be forewarned: this one's kinda a-na...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9699079">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wanted to give up on this book several times. I found the dialect of the novel nearly impossible to get through, and without classroom discussions would not have appreciated the work nearly as much.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Episodic and often hilarious. I'm not sure whether it's subverting stereotypes about people of African descent or upholding them; the depiction of women is also troubling.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Good expat situation.  hedonism vs. a kind of egalitarian racial deontology.]]></body>
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