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Into the Interior

By (author) Michelle Cliff

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In her previous novels, Michelle Cliff explored potent themes of colonialism, race, myth, and identity with rare intelligence, lyrical intensity, and a profound sense of both history and place. Now, with Into the Interior, she has written her most intimate, courageous work of fiction yet, a searing and ultimately moving reflection on the legacy of empire and the restless search for a feeling of belonging.Â â€œI grew up to be someone adept at leaving,â€ confesses Into the Interiorâ€™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 culture-she goes to London to study art history-she penetrates further and further into its emotional shadow life in an attempt to overcome her own deep sense of displacement. Reversing the journey Joseph Conradâ€™s Marlow took from the imperial capital to a colonial outpost, she discovers a â€œheart of darknessâ€ in the former capital of the British Empire. Moving among its fragmented personalities and social life, she witnesses-and experiences-its propensity for racism and homophobia, misogyny and abusive patriarchy, hypocrisy and sadism.Â Deftly shifting between present and past, between a childhood in Jamaica-her memories, both disconcerting and humor-tinged, beautifully rendered by Cliffâ€™s elliptical prose-and her purposeful wanderings as an adult that result in intellectual, sexual, and political awakenings, Into the Interior is both deeply personal and charged by a world-historical awareness of the persistent injustices that colonialism imposes on its former subjects.