...Jennifer Thorington Springer Abstract “Reconfigurations of Caribbean History: Michelle Cliff's Rebel Women” examines Cliff's re-visioning of Caribbean history in an effort to elucidate Caribbean women's active role in building Caribbean nations. In Abeng , Cliff reinvents what Honor Ford Smith...

...Erica L. Johnson Abstract In this article I argue that Cliff's portrait of the nineteenth-century African American abolitionist, entrepreneur, and civil rights activist Mary Ellen Pleasant participates in a genre of subaltern historiography that I term “ghostwriting.” Cliff was inspired to write...

...Jennifer J. Smith Abstract Michelle Cliff's novels Abeng and No Telephone to Heaven have received significant critical attention for their attempts to establish a lineage of female resistance to oppression and to restore matrilineal histories that have been effaced by colonial and neocolonial...

... arts. The author describes radical interdisciplinarity as building on the hybrid methodologies of women of color authors such as Gloria Anzaldúa, Audre Lorde, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Michelle Cliff, who often combined memoir with fiction or poetry. The essay itself includes examples of radical...

...," these structural hegemonies (which also include race and class inequalities) negotiate with, depend upon, and are even constituted by antifeminist practices in the host country. In separate essays, Erica L. Johnson and Jennifer Smith provide new perspectives on the work of the Jamaican-born writer, Michelle Cliff...

... with the patriarchal family-is evident in Abengt,he novel by the Jamaican novelist Michelle Cliff. In "Reconfigurations of Caribbean History: Michelle Cliff's Rebel Women," Jennifer Springer examines how Cliffre-visions Caribbean history byimbricatingthe role of"rebel" women in the building of Caribbean nations...

... somewhere not far from here I hear the crows in her black hair climbing braided ropes, feel the burn of the Serenghetti setting in her amber eyes [Meridians:feminism,race,transnationalism 2005, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 86-87] ©2005 by Smith College. All rights reserved. 86 held by cheekboned cliffs. Understand...

... And in the name of winnie mandela and martin luther king And in the name ofirene diggs and roberta stoddart And in the name of kathrine dunham and assata shakur And in the name of malcolm X and mahatma gandhi And in the name of shirley chisholm and michelle cliff MERIDIANS TRIBUTE TO JUNE JORDAN 23...

... Rubin, and Ginny Vida; Cook wrote about the works of poets Jan Clausen, Susan Sherman, Susan Griffin, Joan Larkin, Adrienne Rich, and Clare Coss. She detailed the contributions of Audre Larde, Barbara Smith, Michelle Cliff, Catherine Stimpson, Judith Schwartz, Bernice Goodman, and Carroll Smith...

..., Wild flowers, ceaseless mist. I married you in the midst of what I felt Was a war in my own life. But who the parties were I could not say, Even if forced to the edge of a cliff. The war continued, But now you were a party to it. In the midst of this we had our children. With what lay to hand, MEENA...

... with depression and what she refers to as a "breakdown" works to encourage us to think about women and madness as situated within specific tropes about women's place (usually limited) in Western societies. Caribbean women's "madness" is explored in Jean Rhys's WideSargassoSea([1966] 1982) and Michelle Cliff's...

... drain intensity from surrounding regions Each organ envies the intensity ofits surrounding bodily context, craves enervation, seeks incandescence, wants itself to be charged with excitations" (1995, 197). 31. Michelle Cliff(1989, 50). Cliff is of course echoing the Rastafarian colloquial exclamation, "I...

... wealth and social mobility with skin color, remnants from Jamaica's colonial past, was suppressed in public discussions. 10 The suppression of blackness in the public discourse contributed to its continued devaluation in Jamaican society and helped perpetuate what Michelle Cliff calls a "hierarchy...

... at young girls, were drunkenly remembering how they used to push the "bongs" off the cliffs for fun near Kadina in north South Australia), I was profoundly shocked at how my political activity had so deeply failed to consider Aboriginal women's needs or rights. Though I had protested for environmental...

... in fact it seemed to be a sort of haven, though not consciously articulated as such. It was a difficult and dangerous world, a post-colonial world. What great turbulence. Youknow that wonderful line, "the mind has mountains, cliffs of sheer fall ," which is Hopkins. There are difficulties and dangers...

... AND TRANSLATING MERIDIANS 85 in rn8 B.C.E. Standing along the sides of the steep cliff drop, words-all words-simply fall off into awed silence as the wind fills the intricate maze of earthen remnants of this once great center of military and economic power. But there in the desert I find myself, one of the ethnic...

...: Postcolonial Praxis," in Krupat, 1993. Nash, Gary B. 1982 [1974). Red,White,andBlack:ThePeopleosf EarlyAmerica. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall. Owens, Louis. 1992. OtherDestiniesU: nderstandinthgeAmericanIndian Novel.Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. Perry, Donna. 1993. Backtalk.WomenWritersSpeakOut...

.... Chakrabarty, Dipesh. 2007. Provincializin9Europe:PostcoloniaTl hou9htand Historical Di.fJerencPe.rinceton: Princeton University Press. Cliff, Michelle. 1994. FreeEnterprise.San Francisco: City Lights. Comite Nationale pour la Memoire et l'Histoire de l'Esclavage. "Archives nationales de l'outre-mer...

..., and noncitizens. 4. Some of the authors whose texts can be classified under the coming-of-age rubric are, for example, Merle Hodge, Erna Brodber, Zee Edgell, Michelle Cliff, Grace Nichols, or Jamaica Kincaid. 5. Black Canadian feminist thought acknowledges the important and crucial role of black women in shaping...

... of Capécia’s moments of intertextuality with Hearn is, interestingly, her borrowings from the story “La Guiablesse,” a folk tale in which a beautiful woman lures a man into the jungle only to transform into a horrific demon, startling her unwitting suitor so that he falls off a cliff to his death...