Works by
Michelle Cliff
(Writer)
[1946 - ]

Novels

• Abeng (1985)

• No Telephone to Heaven (1987)

• Free Enterprise (1993), re-published 2004 as Free Enterprise: A Novel of Mary Ellen Pleasant)
  In 1858, two black women meet at a restaurant and begin to plot a revolution. Mary Ellen Pleasant owns a string of hotels in San Francisco that secretly double as havens for runaway slaves. Her comrade, Annie, is a young Jamaican who has given up her life of privilege to fight for the abolitionist cause. Together they join John Brown's doomed enterprise and barely escape with their lives.

  With mesmerizing skill, Cliff weaves a multitude of voices into a gripping, poignant story of the struggle for liberation that began not long after the first slaves landed on America's shores.

Poetry

• Claiming an Identity They Taught Me to Despise (1980

• The Land of Look Behind: Prose and Poetry (1985)

Short Stories

• Bodies of Water (1990)

• The Store of a Million Items (1998)

See also:

• The Winner Names the Age: A Collection of Writings (1982), Lillian Smith, ed.

• Michelle Cliff: Fragments for the Construction of Self, History and Her/story (Research report) (1997) by David J Labiosa;

• Rewriting History: Alternative versions of the Caribbean past in Michelle Cliff, Rosario Ferr, Jamaica Kincaid, and Daniel Maximin (1999) by Barbara Edlmair;

• Michelle Cliff's Novels (2000) by Noraida Agosto

• Claiming Masculinity as Her Own: Cultural identity and Caribbean Women's Writing (2001) by Patricia Krüs