How to say Babylon : a memoir /

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 the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Sinclair, Safiya (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : 37Ink/Simon & Schuster, [2023].
Subjects:	Sinclair, Safiya. African American women authors > 21st century > Biography. Fathers and daughters. Jamaicans > Biography. Rastafarians > Biography. Women college teachers > United States > Biography. Women poets, American > Biography. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies.

Table of Contents:

Author's note
Prologue
Budgerigar
The man who would be god
Domain of the marvelous
Fisherman's daughter
Unclean women
Bettah must come
Revelations
As the twig is bent
Chicken merry hawk
Hydra
Age of wonder
Moth in amber
Medusa
My Eurydice
The red belt
False idol
Book of Esther
Not Hollywood
Through the fire
Silver
Lionheart
Galatea
Dance of Salome
Leaving Sequestra
Coven
Jezebel
Harbinger of Babylon
Mermaid
Daughter of Lilith
The red door
Iphigenia
Jumbie bird
I woman.