If I could write this in fire [[electronic resource] /] / Michelle Cliff
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Cliff Michelle
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| Titolo: |
If I could write this in fire [[electronic resource] /] / Michelle Cliff
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| Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2008 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (104 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 813/.6 |
| Soggetto topico: | Authors, American - 20th century |
| Authors, Jamaican - 20th century | |
| Jamaican Americans | |
| Lesbian authors | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Born in a Jamaica still under British rule, the acclaimed and influential writer Michelle Cliff embraced her many identities, shaped by her experiences with the forces of colonialism and oppression: a light-skinned Creole, a lesbian, an immigrant in both England and the United States. In her celebrated novels and short stories, she has probed the intersection of prejudice and oppression with a rare and striking lyricism. In her first book-length collection of nonfiction, Cliff displays the same poetic intensity, interweaving reflections on her life in Jamaica, England, and the United States wi |
| Titolo autorizzato: | If I could write this in fire |
| ISBN: | 0-8166-6655-5 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910782849903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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