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100 1 $aCliff, Michelle.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78018920
245 10 $aIf I could write this in fire /$cMichelle Cliff.
260 $aMinneapolis :$bUniversity of Minnesota Press,$c[2008], ©2008.
300 $axi, 89 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 00 $tPreface: Journey into Speech -- $tAnd What Would It Be Like -- $tIf I Could Write This in Fire, I Would Write This in Fire -- $tCross-Country: A Documentary in Ten Jump-Cuts -- $tSites of Memory -- $tLynchburg 2003 -- $tThe Thing behind the Trees -- $tIn My Heart, a Darkness.
520 1 $a"In her first book-length collection of nonfiction, Cliff interweaves reflections on her life in Jamaica, England, and the United States with a powerful and sustained critique of racism, homophobia, and social injustice. If I Could Write This in Fire begins by tracing her transatlantic journey from Jamaica to England, coalescing around a graceful, elliptical account of her childhood friendship with Zoe, who is dark-skinned and from an impoverished, rural background; the divergent life courses that each is forced to take; and the class and color tensions that shape their lives as adults. In other essays and poems, Cliff writes about the discovery of her distinctive, diasporic literary voice, recalls her wild colonial girlhood and sexual awakening, and recounts traveling through an American landscape of racism, colonialism, and genocide - a history of violence embodied in seemingly innocuous souvenirs and tourist sites."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aCliff, Michelle.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78018920
650 0 $aAuthors, Jamaican$y20th century$vBiography.
650 0 $aAuthors, American$y20th century$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100576
650 0 $aJamaican Americans$vBiography.
650 0 $aLesbian authors$vBiography.
852 00 $bglx$hPR9265.9.C55$iZ46 2008