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American novelist

Michelle Carla Cliff (2 November – 12 June ) was a Jamaican-American author whose notable works included Abeng (), No Telephone to Heaven (), and Free Enterprise ().

In addition to novels, Cliff also wrote short stories, prose poems and works of literary criticism.

Michelle cliff free enterprise

Her works explore the various complex identity problems that stem from the experience of post-colonialism, as well as the difficulty of establishing an authentic individual identity in the face of race and gender constructs. A historical revisionist, many of Cliff's works seek to advance an alternative view of history against established mainstream narratives.

She often referenced her writing as an act of defiance—a way to reclaim a voice and build a narrative in order to speak out against the unspeakable by tackling issues of sex and race.^[1]

Identifying as biracial and bisexual, Cliff, who had both Jamaican and American citizenship, used her voice to create a bod