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A lyrical coming-of-age story and an essential retelling of the colonial history of Jamaica.

Originally published in 1984, this critically acclaimed novel is the story of Clare Savage, a light-skinned, middle-class twelve-year-old growing up in Jamaica in the 1950s.

As Clare tries to find her own identity and place in her culture, she carries the burden of her mixed heritage. There are the Maroons, who used the conch shell—the abeng—to pass messages as they fought against their English enslavers. And there is her white great-great-grandfather, Judge Savage, who committed a terrible act of violence on the eve of emancipation.

In Clare’s struggle to reconcile the conflicting legacies of her own personal lineage, esteemed Caribbean author Michelle Cliff dramatically confronts the cultural and psychological brutality inflicted upon the island and its people by colonialism.

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A lyrical coming-of-age story and an essential retelling of the colonial history of Jamaica. Originally published in 1984, this critically... Read more

    Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
    Publication Date: 01/09/1995
    ISBN13: 9780452274839, 978-0452274839
    ISBN10: 0452274834

    Number of Pages: 176

    Fiction , Contemporary Fiction

    Description

    A lyrical coming-of-age story and an essential retelling of the colonial history of Jamaica.

    Originally published in 1984, this critically acclaimed novel is the story of Clare Savage, a light-skinned, middle-class twelve-year-old growing up in Jamaica in the 1950s.

    As Clare tries to find her own identity and place in her culture, she carries the burden of her mixed heritage. There are the Maroons, who used the conch shell—the abeng—to pass messages as they fought against their English enslavers. And there is her white great-great-grandfather, Judge Savage, who committed a terrible act of violence on the eve of emancipation.

    In Clare’s struggle to reconcile the conflicting legacies of her own personal lineage, esteemed Caribbean author Michelle Cliff dramatically confronts the cultural and psychological brutality inflicted upon the island and its people by colonialism.

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