| LC control no. | n 78018920 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PR9265.9.C55 |
| Personal name heading | Cliff, Michelle |
| Associated place | London (England) |
| Located | New York (N.Y.) Staten Island (New York, N.Y.) Santa Cruz (Calif.) |
| Birth date | 1946-11-02 |
| Death date | 2016-06-12 |
| Place of birth | Kingston (Jamaica) |
| Place of death | Santa Cruz (Calif.) |
| Field of activity | History Poetry Fiction Essays Postcolonialism Feminism |
| Affiliation | Institute for Research in History (New York, N.Y.) Wagner College Warburg Institute Emory University Trinity College (Hartford, Conn.) |
| Profession or occupation | Women historians Women authors Women poets Feminists Historians Novelists Essayists Poets |
| Found in | Smith, L. E. The winner names ... c1978 (a.e.) t.p. (Michelle Cliff) pub. info. (historian and member of Institute for Res. in History) Her Claiming an identity they taught me to despise, c1980: t.p. (Michelle Cliff) CIP data sheet (b. 11/2/46) Contemp. lesbian writers of the US, 1993: p. 135 (Michelle Cliff; born in Kingston, Jamaica on November 2, 1946; emigrated to New York with her parents three years later; received M. Phil degree in Renaissance studies from the Warburg Institute in London) Wikipedia, March 11, 2014: entry for Michelle Cliff (novelist, poet, essayist; has written works of literary criticism; her works explore identity problems that stem from post-colonialism; lesbian; educated at Wagner College and the Warburg Institute; she has held academic positions at several colleges including Trinity College and Emory University; Cliff was a contributor to the Black feminist anthology Home Girls; as of 1999, Cliff was living in Santa Cruz, California) Black Women in America, Second Edition; accessed December 12 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Cliff, Michelle; fiction writer, poet, essayist; born 02 November 1946 in Kingston, Jamaica; earned a BA in European History from Wagner College in New York (1969); earned an MA in Philosophy (1974), completing her dissertation on the Italian Renaissance at the Warburg Institute at the University of London's School of Advanced Study; her first book was a collection of prose poetry that began the process in earnest; Claiming an identity they taught me to despise(1980) explores prejudice as experienced by a woman who was light enough to pass and was encouraged to do so, even by family members; her first novel, Abeng (1984), is a coming-of-age story set in Jamaica in which she takes on complex issues of identity, race, class, and sexuality) New York times WWW site, viewed June 20, 2016 (in obituary published June 18: Michelle Cliff; b. Michelle Carla Cliff, Nov. 2, 1946, Kingston, Jamaica; her parents emigrated to New York soon after her birth, leaving her with relatives; she rejoined them when she was 3; in 1956 the Cliffs returned to Jamaica; the family came back to New York in 1960 and settled on Staten Island; d. June 12, Santa Cruz, Calif., aged 69; Jamaican-American writer whose novels, stories, and nonfiction essays drew on her multicultural identity to probe the psychic disruptions and historical distortions wrought by colonialism and racism) |
| Associated language | eng |
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