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How to say Babylon : a memoir / Safiya Sinclair.

Sinclair, Safiya, (author,, narrator.).

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781797157122
  • ISBN: 1797157124
  • ISBN: 9781797157139
  • ISBN: 1797157132
  • Physical Description: 13 audio discs (17 hours) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
  • Edition: Unabridged.
  • Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster Audio, [2023]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Title from web page.
Participant or Performer Note:
Read by the author.
Subject: Sinclair, Safiya.
Women > Jamaica > Biography.
Rastafarians > Biography.
Femmes > Jamaïque > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies.
Genre: autobiographies (literary works)
Audiobooks.
Autobiographies.
Livres audio.
Autobiographies.

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Homer Public Library CD 920.72 SIN (Text) 000134169 Display -- Lit Lineup Available -


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