I Name Me Name

"Opal Palmer Adisa employs autobiographical prose, dramatic monologue, lyric poem, praise song, blues and prophetic rant to enact the construction of an identity. At its centre is a Rastafarian sense of 'i-ness', but its outer dimensions fully encompass an African Jamaican/American woman's radical consciousness of gender, race, geography, the spiritual and the sensual, the social, political and the historical as the co-ordinates of a dynamic space for dialogue and connection." "Above all, I Name Me Name shares with us the making of a writing persona, the interface between personal and social space, the imagination, and the characters who come unbidden to demand that their stories be told."--BOOK JACKET.

Opal Palmer Adisa is the author of several books of poetry and stories for adults and children, including Caribbean Passion and It Begins with Tears, and is the winner of the 1992 Pen Oakland/Josephine Miles Award. Currently, she teaches literature and serves as chair of the ethnic studies and cultural diversity program at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland.