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Journal Article
\A WOMAN IS A CONJUNCTION\: The Ends of Improvisation in Claude McKay's \Banjo: A Story without a Plot\
2013
Overview
Reed talks about Claude McKay's 1929 Banjo: A Story without a Plot, concerned with spontaneous forms of black internationalist cultural politics in interwar Marseilles, is a novel of conjunction. From its setting in a port city to its thematization of novel forms of association, it attempts to imagine new ways of being together and forms of politics beyond the limits suggested by the \"Negro intelligentsia\" its characters criticize or those available under liberal capitalist modernity. Reed discusses the temporal politics to which the figure of woman--as a figure of reproduction, repetition, and attachment to the existing aesthetic, sexual, and power regimes--serves as a limit to the regulatory fictions governing race and music.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
