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If I could write this in fire / Michelle Cliff.
- Title
- If I could write this in fire / Michelle Cliff.
- Author
- Cliff, Michelle
- Publication
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2008.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PR9265.9.C55 Z46 2008 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xi, 89 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "In her first book-length collection of nonfiction, Cliff interweaves reflections on her life in Jamaica, England, and the United States with a powerful and sustained critique of racism, homophobia, and social injustice. If I Could Write This in Fire begins by tracing her transatlantic journey from Jamaica to England, coalescing around a graceful, elliptical account of her childhood friendship with Zoe, who is dark-skinned and from an impoverished, rural background; the divergent life courses that each is forced to take; and the class and color tensions that shape their lives as adults. In other essays and poems, Cliff writes about the discovery of her distinctive, diasporic literary voice, recalls her wild colonial girlhood and sexual awakening, and recounts traveling through an American landscape of racism, colonialism, and genocide - a history of violence embodied in seemingly innocuous souvenirs and tourist sites."--Jacket.
- Uniform Title
- Project Muse UPCC books
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Preface: Journey into Speech -- And What Would It Be Like -- If I Could Write This in Fire, I Would Write This in Fire -- Cross-Country: A Documentary in Ten Jump-Cuts -- Sites of Memory -- Lynchburg 2003 -- The Thing behind the Trees -- In My Heart, a Darkness.
- ISBN
- 0816654743 (acid-free paper)
- 9780816654741 (acid-free paper)
- 0816654751 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- 9780816654758 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2008021743
- OCLC
- 228632402
- SCSB-12548675
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library