{"id":47917,"date":"2016-06-23T23:51:18","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T23:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=47917"},"modified":"2017-05-03T17:18:26","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T17:18:26","slug":"no-telephone-to-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=47917","title":{"rendered":"No Telephone to Heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.penguin.com\/book\/no-telephone-to-heaven-by-michelle-cliff\/9780452275690\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>No Telephone to Heaven<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.penguin.com\/meet\/publishers\/plume\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Plume<\/a><br \/>\nMarch 1996 (Originally published in 1987)<br \/>\n224 Pages<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 9780452275690<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michelle_Cliff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michelle Cliff<\/a> (1946-2016)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.penguin.com\/book\/no-telephone-to-heaven-by-michelle-cliff\/9780452275690\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.randomhouse.com\/cover\/9780452275690?height=467&amp;alt=no_cover_penguin.jpg\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A brilliant Jamaican-American writer takes on the themes of colonialism, race, myth, and political awakening through the experiences of a light-skinned woman named Clare Savage. The story is one of discovery as Clare moves through a variety of settings \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jamaica\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jamaica<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/England\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">England<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">America<\/a> \u2013 and encounters people who affect her search for place and self.<\/p>\n<p>The structure of <em>No Telephone to Heaven<\/em> 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. In this deeply poetic novel there exist several levels: the world Clare encounters, and a world of which she only gradually becomes aware \u2013 a world of extreme poverty, the real Jamaica, not the Jamaica of the middle class, not the Jamaica of the tourist. And Jamaica \u2013 almost a character in the book \u2013 is described in terms of extraordinary beauty, coexisting with deep human tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>The violence that rises out of extreme oppression, the divided loyalties of a colonized person, sexual dividedness, and the dividedness of a person neither white nor black \u2013 all of these are truths that Clare must face. Overarching all the themes in this exceptionally fine novel is the need to become whole, and the decisions and the courage demanded to achieve that wholeness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A brilliant Jamaican-American writer takes on the themes of colonialism, race, myth, and political awakening through the experiences of a light-skinned woman named Clare Savage. The story is one of discovery as Clare moves through a variety of settings \u2013 Jamaica, England, America \u2013 and encounters people who affect her search for place and self.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[395,11,21,15,10,20],"tags":[81,80,24247,2755,7543],"class_list":["post-47917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiography","category-books","category-latincarib","category-novels","category-uk","category-usa","tag-england","tag-jamaica","tag-michelle-carla-cliff","tag-michelle-cliff","tag-plume"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47917","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=47917"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53767,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47917\/revisions\/53767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}