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03251aam a22004098i 4500 001 D10F5614CFBD11EEA823266155ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240220010048 008 231006s2023 miu db 000 0aeng 010 $a 2023043080 020 $a 9798885797108 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d SILO 050 10 $a PS3619.I56847 $b Z46 2023 082 00 $2 23/eng/20231006 100 1 $a Sinclair, Safiya, $e author. $9 198091 245 10 $a HOW TO SAY BABYLON : $b A MEMOIR [LARGE PRINT]/ $c Safiya Sinclair. 250 $a Large print. 263 $a 2402 264 1 $a Farmington Hills : $b Thorndike Press Large Print Biography and Memoir,, $c 2023. 300 $a pages cm 500 $a 2024/02/28 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 520 $a "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, acollision 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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Sinclair, Safiya. $9 198091 650 0 $a African American women authors $y 21st century $v Biography. 650 0 $a Large type books. $9 72061 655 7 $a Large print books. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 lcgft $9 145492 650 7 $a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / General $2 bisacsh 941 $a 4 945 $a lpt 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20240509011324.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20240402013256.0 952 $l YTPG232 $d 20240402011549.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20240220011348.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D10F5614CFBD11EEA823266155ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search