Title: Into the interior
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.
Subjects: Fiction, Self-realization in women, Bisexual women, Displacement (Psychology), Fiction, psychological