Cliff, Michelle
About Michelle Cliff
Reviews
Harlan, Megan. "Looking Back Sideways." The New York Times, 16 Aug. 1998
Interviews
Enszer, Julie R. “Michelle Cliff: The Historical Re-Visionary.” Lambda Literary, 24 Jun. 2010
Raiskin, Judith. “The Art of History: An Interview with Michelle Cliff.” The Kenyon Review, vol. 15, no. 1, 1993
Schwartz, Meryl F. “An Interview with Michelle Cliff.” Contemporary Literature, vol. 34, no. 4, 1993
Criticism
Ilmonen, Kaisa. Queer Rebellion in the Novels of Michelle Cliff: Intersectionality and Sexual Modernity, 2017
Beriault, Janie. “’I Guess That’s Another Place They’ve Ruined for Us’: A Spatial Struggle against the Development of Commercial Tourism in Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place and Michelle Cliff’s No Telephone to Heaven.” Journal of Postcolonial Writing, vol. 53, no. 6, 2017
Stecher Guzmán, Lucía, and Elsa Maxwell. “Michelle Cliff’s Into the Interior and the Trope of the Solitary Female Immigrant.” Callaloo, vol. 36, no. 3, 2013
Jones, Alwin. "The Novel Witness(es): Re-Membering after Trauma in Adichie's Ghosts, Cliff's No Telephone, and Danticat's Farming of Bones." Between Worlds: An Anthology of Contemporary Fiction and Criticism, Poe and Wattley (eds.), 2012
Johnson, Erica L. “Inventorying Silence in Michelle Cliff’s The Store of a Million Items.” Contemporary Women’s Writing, vol. 6, no. 3, 2012
Dunick, Lisa. “The Dialogic of Diaspora: Michelle Cliff’s Free Enterprise, Glissant, and the History of Slavery in the New World.” CEA Critic, vol. 72, no. 2, 2010
Curry, Ginette. “Michelle Cliff’s Abeng (1995): A Near-White Jamaican Woman’s Quest for Identity.” 'Toubab La!' Literary Representations of Mixed-Race Characters in the African Diaspora, 2007
Richards, Constance S. "Nationalism and the Development of Identity in Postcolonial Fiction: Zoë Wicomb and Michelle Cliff." Research in African Literatures, vol. 36, no. 1, 2005
Toland-Dix, Shirley. "Re-Negotiating Racial Identity: The Challenge of Migration and Return in Michelle Cliff's No Telephone to Heaven." Studies in the Literary Imagination, vol. 37, no. 2, 2004
Elia, Nada. “’A Man Who Wants to Be a Woman’: Queerness as/and Healing Practices in Michelle Cliff’s No Telephone to Heaven.” Callaloo, vol. 23, no. 1, 2000
Ledent, Bénédicte. “’Here, There, and Everywhere’: Michelle Cliff’s (Con)version of Caribbean Identity.” Writing Women Across Borders and Categories, Ghosh-Schellhorn (ed.), 2000
Hornung, Alfred, and Ernstpeter Ruhe (eds.). Postcolonialism & Autobiography: Michelle Cliff, David Dabydeen, Opal Palmer Adisa, 1998
Works
Novels
Into the Interior (2010)
Free Enterprise: A Novel of Mary Ellen Pleasant (1993)
No Telephone to Heaven (1987)
Abeng (1984)
Short Story Collections
Everything is Now: New and Collected Stories (2009)
The Store of a Million Items (1998)
Bodies of Water (1990)
Poetry Collections
The Land of Look Behind: Prose and Poetry (1985)
Claiming an Identity They Taught Me to Despise (1980)
Essays/Articles/Non-Fiction/Short Stories
If I Could Write This in Fire (2008)
As editor: The Winner Names the Age: A Collection of Writings by Lillian Smith (1998)
"Transactions." The Best American Short Stories, Proulx and Kenison (eds.), 1997
“History as Fiction, Fiction as History.” Ploughshares, vol. 20, no. 2-3, 1994