Into the Interior

(Hardback)

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"I grew up to be someone adept at leaving," confesses Into the Interior's 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 Conrad's 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.

Author Bio

Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Michelle Cliff has lectured at many universities and was the Allan K. Smith Professor of English Language and Literature at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. She is the author of If I Could Write This in Fire (Minnesota, 2008); Everything Is Now: New and Collected Stories (Minnesota, 2009); and the acclaimed novels Abeng, No Telephone to Heaven, and Free Enterprise. She lives in California.