{"id":13596,"date":"2011-05-02T21:59:27","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T21:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=13596"},"modified":"2016-06-24T19:57:14","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T19:57:14","slug":"abeng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=13596","title":{"rendered":"Abeng"},"content":{"rendered":"

Abeng<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Penguin Press<\/a>
\n1984
\n176 pages
\n5.35 x 8.07in
\nISBN 9780452274839<\/p>\n

Michelle Cliff<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ever since Abeng<\/em> was first published in 1984, Michelle Cliff has steadily become a literary force. Her novels evoke both the clearly delineated hierarchies of colonial Jamaica<\/a> and the subtleties of present-day island life. Nowhere is her power felt more than in Clare Savage, her Jamaican heroine, who appeared, already grown, in No Telephone to Heaven<\/em><\/a>. Abeng<\/em> is a kind of prequel to that highly-acclaimed novel 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<\/a>, who used the conch shell\u2014the abeng\u2014to pass messages as they fought a guerilla struggle against their English enslavers; and the legacy of Clare’s white great-great-grandfater, 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Abeng Penguin Press 1984 176 pages 5.35 x 8.07in ISBN 9780452274839 Michelle Cliff Ever since Abeng was first published in 1984, Michelle Cliff has steadily become a literary force. Her novels evoke both the clearly delineated hierarchies of colonial Jamaica and the subtleties of present-day island life. Nowhere is her power felt more than in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,21,15],"tags":[2755,6202],"class_list":["post-13596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-latincarib","category-novels","tag-michelle-cliff","tag-penguin-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47941,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13596\/revisions\/47941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}