Abeng : a novel / by Michelle Cliff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cliff, Michelle.

Contributor:

Penn Sexuality Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Crossing Press feminist series

The Crossing Press Feminist series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jamaica--Fiction.

Jamaica.

Women--Fiction.

Women.

Genre:

Feminist fiction.

novels.

Novels.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

167 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Trumansburg, N.Y. : Crossing Press, [1984]

Summary:

"Abeng" is a kind of prequel to the highly acclaimed novel (No Telephone to Heaven) and is a small masterpiece in its own right. Here Clare is twelve years old, the light-skinned daughter of a middle-class family, growing up among the complex contradictions of class versus color, blood versus history, harsh reality versus delusion, in a colonized country. In language that surrounds us with a richness of meaning and voices, the several strands of young Clare's heritage are explored: the Maroons, who used the conch shell - the abeng - to pass messages as they fought a guerilla struggle against their English enslavers; and the legacy of Clare's white great-great-grandfather, Judge Savage, who burned his hundred slaves on the eve of their emancipation. A lyrical, explosive coming-of-age story combined with a provocative retelling of the colonial history of Jamaica, this novel is a triumph.

Local Notes:

Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center.

Other Format:

Online version: Cliff, Michelle. Abeng.

ISBN:

0895941406

9780895941404

0895941392

9780895941398

OCLC:

9082355