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Michelle Cliff is a Jamaican-American author whose notable works include No Telephone to Heaven, Abeng and Free Enterprise.
Cliff also has written short stories, prose poems and works of literary criticism. Her works explore the various, complex identity problems that stem from post-colonialism, as well as the difficulty of establishing an authentic, individual identity despite race and gender constructs. Cliff is a bisexual who grew up in the violently homophobic, poverty-stricken, colonized island of Jamaica.
Cliff also has written short stories, prose poems and works of literary criticism. Her works explore the various, complex identity problems that stem from post-colonialism, as well as the difficulty of establishing an authentic, individual identity despite race and gender constructs. Cliff is a bisexual who grew up in the violently homophobic, poverty-stricken, colonized island of Jamaica.
Novels
Collections
Claiming an Identity They Taught Me to Despise (poems) (1980)
The Land of Look Behind (poems) (1985)
Bodies Of Water (1990)
The Store of a Million Items (1998)
Everything Is Now (2009)
The Land of Look Behind (poems) (1985)
Bodies Of Water (1990)
The Store of a Million Items (1998)
Everything Is Now (2009)
Non fiction show
Books containing stories by Michelle Cliff
The Best American Short Stories 1997 (1997)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Annie Proulx and John Edgar Wideman
