Abeng - Info and Reading Options
a novel
By Michelle Cliff
"Abeng" was published by Persephone Press in 1983 - Watertown, Mass, it has 167 pages and the language of the book is English.
“Abeng” Metadata:
- Title: Abeng
- Author: Michelle Cliff
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 167
- Publisher: Persephone Press
- Publish Date: 1983
- Publish Location: Watertown, Mass
“Abeng” Subjects and Themes:
- Subjects: ➤ Femininity - Feminism - Fiction - History - Jamaica Maroon War, 1795-1796 - Politics and government - Social life and customs - Women - Race relations - Girls - Teenage girls - Fiction, general
- Places: History - Jamaica
- Time: Maroon War, 1795-1796
Edition Specifications:
- Pagination: p. cm
Edition Identifiers:
- The Open Library ID: OL21382032M - OL2736255W
- Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) ID: 63004608 - 10528292 - 9082355
- Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN): 82022506
- ISBN-10: 0930436180
- All ISBNs: 0930436180
AI-generated Review of “Abeng”:
Snippets and Summary:
The island rose and sank.
"Abeng" Description:
The Open Library:
"Abeng" is a kind of prequel to the highly acclaimed novel (No Telephone to Heaven) and is a small masterpiece in its own right. Here Clare is twelve years old, the light-skinned daughter of a middle-class family, growing up among the complex contradictions of class versus color, blood versus history, harsh reality versus delusion, in a colonized country. In language that surrounds us with a richness of meaning and voices, the several strands of young Clare's heritage are explored: the Maroons, who used the conch shell - the abeng - to pass messages as they fought a guerilla struggle against their English enslavers; and the legacy of Clare's white great-great-grandfather, Judge Savage, who burned his hundred slaves on the eve of their emancipation. A lyrical, explosive coming-of-age story combined with a provocative retelling of the colonial history of Jamaica, this novel is a triumph.
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