Writer Michelle Cliff was born in Jamaica on November 2, , at a time when her homeland was still a British colony. As a light-skinned Cliff has three books of collected works: The Land of Look Behind: Prose and Poetry (), Bodies of Water (), and her most recent collection, The Store of a Million. Passing and its effect on the individual is one of the themes that Michelle Cliff explores in her book, The Land of Look Behind. Passing is a recurring theme in much of the literature written by people of color both past and present. In much of this literature passing is detrimental to the bltadwin.ru: Aisha Eshe. Published in , The Land of Look Behind takes as its main subject life in a colonized nation, in this case Jamaica. Its insights about the push and pull of identifying with and resisting your colonizers, identifying with and resisting your ancestors, and the classism /5.
Michelle Cliff, The Land of '';' He/lind Passing and its effect on the individual is one of the themes that Michelle Cliff explores in her book, The Land of Look Behind. Passing is a recurring theme in much ofthe literature written by people of color both past and present. In much ofthis literature passing is detrimental to the character. Michelle Carla Cliff (2 November - 12 June ) was a Jamaican-American author whose notable works included Abeng (novel) (), No Telephone to Heaven (), and Free Enterprise ().. In addition to novels, Cliff also wrote short stories, prose poems and works of literary bltadwin.ru works explore the various complex identity problems that stem from the experience of post. This paper focuses on Michelle Cliff's collection The Land of Look Behind () and the ways in which?disturbance? manifests itself at the level of syntax, narrative and form. Exploring the role of grammar and punctuation, and the politics/mechanics of quotation, the article seeks to demonstrate how Cliff's hybrid and fragmented work is not only experimental, but is also meant to disrupt and.
The land of Look Behind: prose and poetry, by Michelle Cliff Resource Information The item The land of Look Behind: prose and poetry, by Michelle Cliff represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri Libraries. In , Cliff published Abeng, a semi autobiographical novel that explores topics of female sexual subjectivity and Jamaican identity. Next came The Land of Look Behind: Prose and Poetry (), which uses the Jamaican folk world, its landscape and culture to examine identity. Cliff's second novel, No Telephone to Heaven, was. – Writer, editor, and poet Michelle Cliff was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and grew up in Jamaica and the United States. She earned a BA at Wagner College and did her graduate work at the University of London’s Warburg Institute. In her writing, Cliff slips between genres, combining memoir, history, and criticism in explorations of racism, homophobia, identity, and landscape.
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