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No Telephone to Heaven, the sequel to Abeng (novel), is the second novel published by Jamaican-American author Michelle Cliff. The novel continues the story of Clare Savage, Cliff's semi-autobiographical character from Abeng, through a set of flashbacks that recount Clare's adolescence and young adulthood as she moves from Jamaica to ...
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13 feb 2020 · No telephone to heaven. by. Cliff, Michelle. Publication date. 1996. Topics. Jamaican Americans -- Fiction, Women -- Jamaica -- Fiction, Jamaican Americans, Women, Jamaica. Publisher. New York : Penguin Books USA.
A brilliant Jamaican-American writer takes on the themes of colonialism, race, myth, and political awakening. The structure of No Telephone to Heaven combines naturalism and lyricism, and traverses space and time, dream and reality, myth and history, reflecting the fragmentation of the protagonist, who nonetheless seeks wholeness and connection.
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A novel by Michelle Cliff about a woman's identity crisis in a world of oppression and violence. The novel explores themes of race, gender, and colonialism through Clare Savage's journey from Jamaica to New York to England and back.
The No Telephone to Heaven Community Note includes chapter-by-chapter summary and analysis, character list, theme list, historical context, author biography and quizzes written by community members like you.
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1 mar 1996 · No Telephone to Heaven. Michelle Cliff. Penguin, Mar 1, 1996 - Fiction - 224 pages. A brilliant Jamaican-American writer takes on the themes of colonialism, race, myth, and political awakening.
No telephone to heaven by Cliff, Michelle. Publication date 1989 Topics Fiction in English American writers 1945- Texts Publisher Methuen Minerva Collection
