No Telephone to Heaven (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Michelle Cliff
- First Published: 1987
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social criticism
- Time of Work: The 1970’s
- Setting: Jamaica, the United States, and England
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Social realism, Bildungsroman
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Social action, 1970’s, Self-discovery, United States or Americans, Class conflict, Racism, Revolutionaries, Blacks, Murder or homicide, Social issues, England or English people, Violence, Oppression, Jamaica or Jamaicans, Guerrillas or guerrilla warfare
- Locales: United States, England, Jamaica
Characters Discussed
Clare Savage, the protagonist, a woman in her twenties. Clare is the confused daughter of a father who is desperate to find a secure place in the male-dominated power structure and a mother who desires most of all to live with some sense of dignity and self-worth. Her parents’ insecurity is reflected in Clare, who lives at various times in Jamaica, the United States, and England, always hoping to discover who she is and her place—as a black woman from a Third World country—in a world that too often refuses to recognize her kind.
Boy Savage,...
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