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Narrating history, home, and dyaspora : critical essays on Edwidge Danticat

Butler, Maia L., editor, Davis-McElligatt, Joanna, editor, Feifer, Megan, editor, Clitandre, Nadège T., 1977- author of introduction, etc, Davis, Thadious M., 1944- author of introduction, etc

2022

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\"Narrating History, Home, and Dyaspora: Critical Essays on Edwidge Danticat contains fifteen essays addressing how Edwidge Danticat's writing, anthologizing, and storytelling trace, (re)construct, and develop alternate histories, narratives of nation building, and conceptions of home and belonging. The prolific Danticat is renowned for novels, collections of short fiction, nonfiction, and editorial writing. As her experimentation in form expands, so does her force as a public intellectual. Danticat's literary representations, political commentary, and personal activism have proven vital to classroom and community work imagining radical futures. Among increasing anti-immigrant sentiment and containment and rampant ecological volatility, Danticat's contributions to public discourse, art, and culture deserve sustained critical attention. These essays offer essential perspectives to scholars, public intellectuals, and students interested in African diasporic, Haitian, Caribbean, and transnational American literary studies. This collection frames Danticat's work as an indictment of statelessness, racialized and gendered state violence, the persistence of political and economic margins, and the essential vitality of life in and as dyaspora. The first section of this volume, \"The Other Side of the Water,\" engages with Danticat's construction and negotiation of nation, both in Haiti and the United States; the broader dyaspora; and her own, her family's, and her fictional characters' places within them. The second section, \"Welcoming Ghosts,\" delves into the ever-present specter of history and memory, prominent themes found throughout Danticat's work. From origin stories to broader Haitian histories, this section addresses the underlying traumas involved when remembering the past and its relationship to the present. The third section, \"I Speak Out,\" explores the imperative to speak, paying particular attention to the narrative form with which such telling occurs. The fourth and final section, \"Create Dangerously,\" contends with Haitians' activism, community building, and the political and ecological climate of Haiti and its dyaspora\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Subject: Danticat, Edwidge, 1969- Criticism and interpretation. / Haitian American authors Criticism and interpretation. / American literature Haitian American authors Criticism and interpretation.
• ISBN: 9781496839879, 9781496839886

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PS3554.A5815 Z78 2022	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE