Cannibal

by Safiya Sinclair

Book Overview

Colliding with and confronting The Tempest and postcolonial identity, the poems in Safiya Sinclair's Cannibal explore Jamaican childhood and history, race relations in America, womanhood, otherness, and exile. She evokes a home no longer accessible and a body at times uninhabitable, often mirrored by a hybrid Eve/Caliban figure. Blooming with intense lyricism and fertile imagery, these full-blooded poems are elegant, mythic, and intricately...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803290632
• ISBN13: 9780803290631
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 126 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"