num_pages: 126
description: Colliding with and confronting The Tempest and postcolonial identity the poems in Safiya Sinclairs Cannibal explore Jamaican childhood and history race relations in America womanhood otherness and exile. She evokes a home no longer accessible and a body at times uninhabitable often mirrored by a hybrid Eve/Caliban figure. Blooming with intense lyricism and fertile imagery these full-blooded poems are elegant mythic and intricately woven. Here the female body is a dark landscape; the female body is cannibal. Sinclair shocks and delights her readers with her willingness to disorient and provoke creating a multitextured collage of beautiful and explosive poems.
language: English
title: Cannibal
publisher: University of Nebraska Press