Into the interior
By: Michelle Cliff.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780816669790
Subjects: Self-realization in women -- Fiction; Displacement (Psychology) -- Fiction; Bisexual women -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: I grew up to be someone adept at leaving, confesses Into the Interiors unnamed narrator, a bisexual Caribbean woman of color, and Cliff traces her travels from Jamaica to New York to London. Educated in admiration for Western cultureshe goes to London to study art historyshe penetrates further and further into its emotional shadow life in an attempt to overcome her own deep sense of displacement. Reversing the journey Joseph Conrads Marlow took from the imperial capital to a colonial outpost, she discovers a heart of darkness in the former capital of the British Empire. Moving among its fragmented personalities and social life, she witnessesand experiencesits propensity for racism and homophobia, misogyny and abusive patriarchy, hypocrisy and sadism.
Table of contents: title: Points of departure; title: Lying-in; title: Among the Christian diabolists; title: Below the waterline; title: Marooned; title: Night nursery; title: Rex and Queenie; title: Joy of cooking; title: Runagate; title: Confluence.