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" If I could write this in fire / "
Michelle Cliff.
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BL
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1048132
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b802502
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Cliff, Michelle.
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If I could write this in fire /\ Michelle Cliff.
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| Publication Statement
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Minneapolis :: University of Minnesota Press,, ©2008.
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1 online resource (xi, 89 pages)
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0816666555
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0816654743
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0816654751
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9780816654741
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9780816654758
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Includes bibliographical references.
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| Contents
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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.
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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.
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Cliff, Michelle.
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Cliff, Michelle.
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Authors, American-- 20th century, Biography.
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Authors, Jamaican-- 20th century, Biography.
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Jamaican Americans, Biography.
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Lesbian authors, Biography.
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Authors, American.
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Authors, Jamaican.
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BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Literary.
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Jamaican Americans.
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Lesbian authors.
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS-- General.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.
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813/.6
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PR9265.9.C55Z46 2008eb
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