Edwidge Danticat's prolific body of work has established her as one of the most important voices in 21st-century literary culture. Across such novels as Breath, Eyes, Memory, Farming the Bones and short story collections such as Krik? Krak! and most recently Everything Inside, essays, and writing for children, the Haitian-American writer has throughout her oeuvre tackled important contemporary themes including racism, imperialism, anti-immigrant politics, and sexual violence.
With chapters written by leading and emerging international scholars, this is the most up-to-date and in-depth reference guide to 21st-century scholarship on Edwidge Danticat's work. The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edwidge Danticat covers such topics as:
· The full range of Danticat's writing from her novels and short stories to essays, life writing and writing for children and young adults.
· Major interdisciplinary scholarly perspectives including from establishing fields fields of literary studies, Caribbean Studies Political Science, Latin American Studies, feminist and gender studies, African Diaspora Studies, , and emerging fields such as Environmental Studies.
· Danticat's literary sources and influences from Haitian authors such as Marie Chauvet, Jacques Roumain and Jacques-Stéphen Alexis to African American authors like Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, and Caribbean American writers Audre Lorde to Paule Marshall.
· Known and unknown Historical moments in experiences of slavery and imperialism, the consequence of internal and external migration, and the formation of diasporic communities
The book also includes a comprehensive bibliography of Danticat's work and key works of secondary criticism, and an interview with the author, as well as and essays by Danticat herself.
Author(s): Jana Evans Braziel; Nadège T. Clitandre
Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks
Edition: 1 (PDF Ebook)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 464
I. LITERARY BEGINNINGS
Editors' Introduction
A Literary Life and Legacy: Danticat's Writerly Inheritances
Jana Evans Braziel, Western College Endowed Professor, Miami University, USA
Nadège T. Clitandre, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
“All Geography Is Within Me”: Writing Beginnings, Life, Death, Freedom, and Salt
Edwidge Danticat
Interview with Edwidge Danticat
Nadège T. Clitandre, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
II. ON VIOLENCE AND VIOLATED BODIES: BIOPOLITICS IN DANTICAT'S TEXTS
Reconstructive Textual Surgery in Danticat's Krik? Krak! and The Dew-Breaker
Judith Misrahi-Barak, University Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, France
“I Might Lose All My Life”: Brother, I'm Dying and (Black) Immigration Discourse in the US
Myriam J. A. Chancy, Hartley Burr Alexander Chair in the Humanities, Scripps College, USA
“Alleys, Capillaries, Thorns”: The Violated Terre-Natale of Ville Rose
Jana Evans Braziel, Western College Endowed Professor, Miami University, USA
III. ON DEATH AND DYING: NECROPOLITICS IN DANTICAT'S TEXTS
Losing Your (M)Other: Danticat's Narratives of Un/Belonging and Un/Dying
Simone A. James Alexander, Seton Hall University, USA
Lòt bò dlo: Producing Haitian Spaces of Death and Diaspora in Danticat's The Dew Breaker
Anne Brüske, Heidelberg University, Germany
Death and the Maiden: Writing Death in Danticat's Fiction
Marie-José Nzengou-Tayo (PhD), The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus
IV. TIFI AK FANM, GIRLS AND WOMEN
“Somebody, Anybody Sing a Black Girl's Song…”: Danticat and Haitian Girlhood
Régine Michelle Jean-Charles, Boston College, USA
The Good Daughter: Danticat's Migrating Memories
Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw, University of the West Indies, Saint Augustine
“I Am the One Telling It”: Resilient Children & Shadow Texts in Danticat's Picture Books
Cara Byrne, Case Western University, USA
V. ECRI ANGAJE: POLITICAL WRITING: DANTICAT AS PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL
Haiti Faces Difficult Questions Ten Years After a Devastating Earthquake
Edwidge Danticat
Create Dangerously: A Poetics of Writing as Memorial Art; The Text as Echo Chamber
Anja Bandau, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
Haiti's Past, Present, and Uncertain Future: Danticat's New Yorker Column as Platform for Public Intellectualism
Maia Butler, University of North Carolina-Wilmington, USA
Megan Feifer, Medaille College
VI. FOOD, HAITI, AND HAITIAN CULINARY/LITERARY INHERITANCES
Edwidge Danticat's Kitchen History
Vale´rie Loichot, Emory University, USA
“A People Do Not Throw Their Geniuses Away”: Danticat's “Kitchen Poet” Literary Antecedents
Wilson C. Chen, Benedictine University, USA
Scattering and Gathering: Danticat, Food, and (the) Haitian Experience(s)
Robyn Cope, Binghamton University, USA
VII. THEORETICAL APPROACHES
Sea, Stone, Sky, And Cemetery: Vodou's Divine Nature and Religious Archetypes in Danticat's Krik? Krak! and After the Dance
Kyrah Malika Daniels, Boston College, USA
“So Much Had Fallen into The Sea”: An Ecocritical Approach to Danticat's Claire of the Sea Light
Kristina Gibby, Utah Valley University, USA
“Aha!”: Danticat and Creolization
Carine Mardorossian, State University at Buffalo, USA
Memory and The Possibilities of the Short Story Sequence in Krik? Krak!
W. Todd Martin, Huntington University, USA
VIII. HAITI, THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, AND TRANSNATIONAL HISPANIOLA
'Neither Strangers Nor Friends': Transnational Hispaniola and the Uneven Intimacies of The Farming of Bones
John D. Ribó, Florida State University, USA
“Walk too far in either direction and people speak a different language”: Navigating Hispaniola in Edwidge Danticat's The Farming of Bones and “Nineteen Thirty-Seven”
Ramon Ant. Victoriano-Martinez, University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada
IX. CRITICAL SOURCES
Bibliography of Writings by Edwidge Danticat
Bibliography of Literary Criticism on Edwidge Danticat
Biographical Notes
