Michelle Cliff (1946 - ) is a Jamaican-American author whose notable works include No Telephone To Heaven, Abeng, and Free Enterprise. She is the author of several short stories, prose poems, and works of criticism as well. Her works explore the various, complex identity problems that stem from post-colonialism, as well as the difficulty of establishing an authentic, individual identity despite race and gender constructs. As a bi-sexual growing up in the violently homophobic, poverty-stricken, colonized island of Jamaica, she is uniquely qualified to write about these difficult topics. Her novels inevitably recall the work of Toni Morrison, another woman writing out of a colonized nation. // Overview Abeng (Ä běng) is a novel published in 1984 by Michelle Cliff. ... This article is in need of attention. ... Prose poetry is prose that breaks some of the normal rules of prose discourse for heightened imagery or emotional effect. ... A critic (derived from the ancient Greek word krites meaning a judge) is a person who offers a value judgement or an interpretation. ... // Computer programming In object-oriented programming, object identity is a mechanism for distinguishing different objects from each other. ... This article is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... It has been suggested that Validity of human races be merged into this article or section. ... In a variety of different contexts, gender refers to the masculinity or femininity of words, persons, characteristics, or non-human organisms. ... In human sexuality, bisexuality describes a man or woman having a sexual orientation to persons of either or both sexes (a man or woman who sexually likes both sexes; people who are sexually and/or romantically attracted to both males and females). ... Homophobia is a term used to describe: A culturally determined phobia manifesting as fear, revulsion, or contempt for homosexuality. ... Toni Morrison (born February 18, 1931) is one of the most prominent authors in world literature, having won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. ...
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Completed and submitted three entries—on MichelleCliff (in June 2004), Gish Jen (in April 2004), and Michael Thelwell (in August 2003)--for Caribbean American and Chinese American Literature sections of Encyclopedia of Ethnic American Literature, ed.
Encyclopedia projected to be published by Greenwood Press in mid-2005 [per 21 June 2004 email from editor Emmanuel Nelson].
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