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Title: Dismantling the Prison-House of Colonial History in a Selection of Michelle Cliff's Texts
Language: English
Authors: Labidi, Abid Larbi
Source: Advances in Language and Literary Studies. Oct 2016 7(5):64-69.
Availability: Australian International Academic Centre PTY, LTD. 11 Souter Crescent, Footscray VIC, Australia 3011. Tel: +61-3-9028-6880; e-mail: editor.alls@aiac.org.au; Web site: http://journals.aiac.org.au/index.php/alls/index
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 6
Publication Date: 2016
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Evaluative
Descriptors: Foreign Policy, Authors, Foreign Countries, Females, Disadvantaged, Slavery, Oral Tradition, Story Telling, Victims, Blacks, Fiction, Memory, History
Geographic Terms: Jamaica
ISSN: 2203-4714
Abstract: Most, if not all, writings by Jamaican writer Michelle Cliff are connected by a subterranean desire to re-write Afro-Caribbean history from new untold perspectives in reaction to the immense loss and/or distortions that marked the region's history for entire centuries. In this paper, I meticulously read four of Cliff's texts--"Abeng" (1984), its sequel "No Telephone to Heaven" (1987), "Claiming an Identity They Taught Me to Despise" (1980) and "The Land of Look Behind" (1985)--to look at how Cliff retrieves her black ancestors' submerged history and erased past. I particularly explore the methods Cliff deploys to re-center a history deliberately erased/or distorted by what she ironically calls "the official version" ("Free Enterprise," 1994, p. 138) in allusion to the Eurocentric narratives about the twin imperial projects of slavery and colonialism. Finally, I investigate the wealth of possibilities offered by fiction, unrecorded memory, oral story-telling and imagination to out-tell Eurocentric historiography and re-write Afro-Caribbean history from the victims' perspective: slaves, colonial subjects, marginalized female figures, black Diasporic characters, etc.
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Number of References: 18
Entry Date: 2017
Accession Number: EJ1126977
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