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The narrative presents historical suffering as a key lens for understanding contemporary life, with richly textured descriptions of character, sensuous detail, and language. With a theme rooted in an African word for the conch shell and its call to the cane fields, the novel connects memory, freedom, and cultural continuity through fiction.","A novelbythe aшпог оГМО ТЕЕЕРНОМЕТО НЕАУЕМMICHELLE CLIFF  \n\"Forgotten history is the real subject of Abeng....Michelle Cliff has a keen eye for detail [and her]pithyanecdotal descriptions bring Jamaica's present and pastto life.”  \n—The New York Times Book Review  \n\"Jamaican history,lore,and landscape are evocativelyre-created in this multilayered novel....Through itsrichness and diversity of detail,Abeng achieves a timelessuniversality.”  \n—Publishers Weekly  \n“Powerful and often lyric...an important work.”  \n—LibraryJournal  \n“Abeng is a solid achievement,a book that offers a wealthof history and culture....[Cliff\"s]perception of charac-ter,her receptivity to sensuous detail,her rendering ofthe language,make our journey...a richly texturedexperience.”  \n—Plexus  \n\"Jamaican history and mythology almost become charac-ters in this multilayered novel,and the knowledge ofhistory,particularly the history of suffering,is presentedas the way to understand the present.\"  \n—Ms.  \n(Ä·běng)   \nMichelle Cliff  \nPENGUIN BOOKS  \n# PENGUIN BOOKS\n\nPublished by the Penguin GroupPenguin Books USA Ine.,  \n375 Hudson Street,New York,New York 10014,U.S.A.Penguin Books Ltd,27 Wrights Lane,London W85TZ,England  \nPenguin Books Australia Ltd,Ringwood,Victoria,Australia  \nPenguin Books Canada Ltd,10 Alcorn Avenue,Tbronto,Ontario,Canada M4V3B2  \nPenguin Books(N.Z.)Ltd,182-190 Wairau Road,Auckland 10,New Zealand  \nPenguin Books Ltd,Registered Offices:Harmondsworth,Middlesex,England  \nFirst Obelisk paperback printing,1990  \nPublished simultaneously in Canada by Fitzhenry &Whiteside,Limited.This is an authorized reprint of a hardcover edition published byThe Crossing Press.Published in Penguin Books 1991  \n109876543  \nCopyright o Michelle Cliff,1984All rights reserved.  \n# PUBLISHER'S NOTE:\n\nThis novel is a work of fiction.Names,characters,  \nplaces,and incidents either are the product of the author's imaginationor are used fictitiously,and any resemblance to actual persons,living ordead,events,or locales is entirely coincidental.  \nISBN01401.53144  \nLibraryof Congress Catalog Card Number:90-81365(Dutton)  \nPrinted in the United States of America  \nExcept in the United States of America,this.book is sold subjectto the condition that itshall not,by way of trade or otherwise,be lent,re-sold,hired out,or otherwise circulatedwithout the publisher's prior consent in any formof binding or cover other than that in which itis published and without a similar conditionincluding thiscondition being imposed on thesubsequent purchaser.  \nto the memory of Jean Toomer一and for Bessie Head  \nTo know birth and to know deathIn one emotion,  \nTo look before and after with one eye....To know the World and be without a World:In this light that is no light,This time that is no time,to beAnd to be free....  \nBasil McFarlane,b.1922,Jamaican poet.  \nAbeng is an African word meaning conch shell.Theblowing of the conch called the slaves to the canefieldsin the West Indies.The abeng had another use:it wasthe instrument used by the Maroon armies to pass theirmessages and reach one another.          \nFor some of the details of this book,I am indebted to the work of ZoraNeale Hurston,Jervis Anderson,and Orlando Patterson.I also owe adebt to Olive Lewin and the Jamaican Folksingers,for their beautifuland faithful recording of traditionalJamaican music.I am grateful to theMacDowell Colony,where much of this was written.I need to thankthose who read the manuscript and gave me support and criticism -Audre Lorde,Irena Klepfisz,Clare Coss,Susan Wood-Thompson,Beth Brant,Denise Dorsz,and Adrienne Rich.I also want to thankNancy K.Bereano of Crossing Press for her support,enthusiasm,andintelligence during a difficult time.  \nAbove all,this work is a work of fiction,and any resemblance to per-sons alive or dead is entirely coincidental.  \nLord,LordCarry me aloneCarry me when I die  \nCarry me down to the burial groun’Hush you,doan you cry.  \nI've worked long in the fieldI've handled plenty of hoeTo","cbCaivQrjTZabJ15","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaivQrjTZabJ15","pdf",14972462,7,180,"English","en",105,"# Publisher's Note\n## Fiction Disclaimer\n## About the Title and Sources\n## Dedications and Poetry","[{\"question\":\"What does the title “Abeng” mean in the novel’s context?\",\"answer\":\"“Abeng” is an African word meaning conch shell. 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