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Title:

Edwidge Danticat : a reader's guide / edited by Martin Munro.

Publisher:

University of Virginia Press,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

viii, 222 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Danticat, Edwidge,--1969---Criticism and interpretation--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Caribbean Area--In literature.

Other Authors:

Munro, Martin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Section one: Contexts. Inside out: a brief biography of Edwidge Danticat / Martin Munro; Danticat and her Haitian precursors / J. Michael Dash; Danticat and Caribbean women writers / Carine Mardorossian; Danticat and the African American women's literary tradition / Régine Michelle Jean-Charles -- Section two: Texts & analyses. Diasporic politics: Danticat's short works / Nick Nesbitt; Writing young: Danticat's young adult fiction / Kiera Vaclavik; Traveling, writing: Danticat's After the dance / Charles Forsdick; Marassa with a difference: Danticat's Breath, eyes, memory / Mireille Rosello; Violence, nation, and memory in Danticat's The farming of bones / Myriam J.A. Chancy; Concealment, displacement, and disconnection: Danticat's The dew breaker / Mary Gallagher -- Section three: Danticat & her peers. Finally Edwidge arrived / Maryse Condé; The right side of history / Évelyne Trouillot; Balancing the jar / Madison Smartt Bell; To the text / Lyonel Trouillot -- Section four: Interview & bibliography. A family story: Danticat talks about her newest--and most personal--work / Renee H. Shea; Edwidge Danticat: a selected bibliography / Nadève Ménard.

ISBN:

0813930731 (e-book)
9780813930732 (e-book)
0813930227 (pbk.)
9780813930220 (pbk.)
0813930219 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780813930213 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)527702747

LCCN:

2010005642

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)