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Sinclair, Safiya.
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Sinclair, Safiya.
Women poets, American -- Biography.
Poets, Black -- Biography.
Women college teachers -- United States -- Biography.
Rastafarians -- Biography.
Jamaicans -- Biography.
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Sinclair, Safiya.
Sinclair, Safiya.
Women poets, American -- Biography.
Poets, Black -- Biography.
Women college teachers -- United States -- Biography.
Rastafarians -- Biography.
Jamaicans -- Biography.
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How to say Babylon : a memoir / Safiya Sinclair.
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Sinclair, Safiya.
37Ink/Simon & Schuster, 2023.
Call #:
921 S616h
Subjects
Sinclair, Safiya.
Women poets, American -- Biography.
Poets, Black -- Biography.
Women college teachers -- United States -- Biography.
Rastafarians -- Biography.
Jamaicans -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781982132330 (hc.)
Description:
x, 335 p. ; 24 cm.
Notes:
"Read with Jenna"--Jacket.
Summary:
"Throughout her childhood, Safiya Sinclair's father, a volatile reggae musician and militant adherent to a strict sect of Rastafari, became obsessed with her purity, in particular, with the threat of what Rastas call Babylon, the immoral and corrupting influences of the Western world outside their home. He worried that womanhood would make Safiya and her sisters morally weak and impure, and believed a woman’s highest virtue was her obedience. In an effort to keep Babylon outside the gate, he forbade almost everything. In place of pants, the women in her family were made to wear long skirts and dresses to cover their arms and legs, head wraps to cover their hair, no make-up, no jewelry, no opinions, no friends. Safiya's mother, while loyal to her father, nonetheless gave Safiya and her siblings the gift of books, including poetry, to which Safiya latched on for dear life. And as Safiya watched her mother struggle voicelessly for years under housework and the rigidity of her father’s beliefs, she increasingly used her education as a sharp tool with which to find her voice and break free. Inevitably, with her rebellion comes clashes with her father, whose rage and paranoia explodes in increasing violence. As Safiya's voice grows, lyrically and poetically, a collision course is set between them. 'How to Say Babylon' is Sinclair's reckoning with the culture that initially nourished but ultimately sought to silence her; it is her reckoning with patriarchy and tradition, and the legacy of colonialism in Jamaica. Rich in lyricism and language only a poet could evoke, 'How to Say Babylon' is both a universal story of a woman finding her own power and a unique glimpse into a rarefied world we may know how to name, Rastafari, but one we know little about."--From publisher.
Safiya Sinclair was born and raised in Montego Bay, Jamaica. She is the author of the poetry collection Cannibal, winner of a Whiting Writers’ Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Metcalf Award in Literature, the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Poetry, and the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry.
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