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How to say Babylon : a memoir / Safiya Sinclair. - New York ; London ; Toronto ; Sydney ; New Delhi : 37 INK, 2024. - 335, [5] stron ; 22 cm.

Author

Sinclair Safiya. Autor

Form of Work

Książki Literatura faktu, eseje, publicystyka

Demographic Group

Literatura jamajska

Subject

Sinclair, Safiya Poeci Rastafari Jamajka

Genre/Form

Autobiografia Pamiętniki i wspomnienia

Domain

Kultura i sztuka

Książka w języku angielskim. Throughout her childhood, Safiya Sinclair’s father, a volatile reggae musician and a militant adherent to a strict sect of Rastafari, was obsessed with the ever-present threat of the corrupting evils of the Western world outside their home, and worried that womanhood would make Safiya and her sisters morally weak and impure. For him, a woman’s highest virtue was her obedience. Safiya’s extraordinary mother, though loyal to her father, gave her the one gift she knew would take Safiya beyond the stretch of beach and mountains in Jamaica their family called home: a world of books, knowledge, and education she conjured almost out of thin air. When she introduced Safiya to poetry, Safiya’s voice awakened. As she watched her mother struggle voicelessly for years under relentless domesticity, Safiya’s rebellion against her father’s rules set her on an inevitable collision course with him. Her education became the sharp tool to hone her own poetic voice and carve her path to liberation. Rich in emotion and page-turning drama, How to Say Babylon is “a melodious wave of memories” of a woman finding her own power.

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All copies are currently on loan: sygn. 929 Sinclair S. (1 egz.)

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Awards note

National Book Critics Circle Award Winner