Everything is now [[electronic resource] ] : new and collected stories / / Michelle Cliff

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910455136203321
• Autore: Cliff Michelle
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2009
• ISBN: 0-8166-6816-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (286 p.)
• Disciplina: 813/.54
• Soggetti: Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; My Grandmother's Eyes; Everything Is Now; Ashes, Ashes . . .; Then As Now; Muleskin. Honeyskin.; Belling the Lamb; Crocodilopolis; Lost Nation Road; While Underneath; Ecce Homo; Water Signs; It's All Yours; Carnegie's Bones; Dream Street; Columba; The Ferry; A Hanged Man; A Woman Who Plays Trumpet Is Deported; American Time, American Light; Burning Bush; Screen Memory; Election Day 1984; Bodies of Water; Keeper of All Souls; Transactions; Monster; Contagious Melancholia; Down the Shore; The Store of a Million Items; Stan's Speed Shop; Wartime; Art History; Rubicon; Apache Tears; A Public Woman
• Sommario/riassunto: Everything Is Now brings together all the short fiction of Michelle Cliff, featuring fourteen new pieces as well as the stories from her two previous short fiction collections (Bodies of Water and The Store of a Million Items).Cliff, born in Jamaica and raised both there and in New York, skillfully weaves her own experiences into her fiction, exploring race, gender, sexuality, and colonialism.With stunning lyricism, intelligence, and passion, Cliff confronts the dualities of our complex world: black and white, America and the third world, past and present, femininity and masculinity, coloniali