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"Abeng"
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autobiographical
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michelle
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repression
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jamaican
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jamaica
Abeng (Ä běng) is a novel published in 1984 by Michelle Cliff. It is a quasi-autobiographical novel about a white Jamaican girl growing up in the 1950s. It explores the historical repression that resulted from British imperialism in Jamaica.
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conch
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african
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shell
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meaning
an African word meaning conch shell
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