Literary beginnings. Editor's introduction: A literary life and legacy : Danticat's writerly inheritances / Jana Evans Braziel, Nadege T. Clitandre -- "All geography is within me" : writing beginnings, life, death, freedom, and salt / Edwidge Danticat -- Interview with Edwidge Danticat / Nadege T. Clitandre -- 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 -- "I might lose all my life" : brother, I'm dying and (Black) immigration discourse in the US / Myriam J. A. Chancy -- "Alleys, capillaries, thorns" : the violated Terre-Natale of Ville Rose / Jana Evans Braziel. On death and dying : necropolitics and Danticat's texts. Losing your (m)other : Danticat's narratives of un/belonging and un/dying / Simone A. James Alexander -- Lot bo dlo : producing Haitian spaces of death and diaspora in Danticat's The dew breaker / Anne BruĀske -- Death and the maiden : writing death in Danticat's fiction / Marie-Jose Nzengou-Tayo -- Tifi ak fanm, girls and women. "Somebody, anybody sing a Black girl's song..." : Danticat and Haitian girlhood / Regine Michelle Jean-Charles -- The good daughter : Danticat's migrating memories / Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw -- "I am the one telling it" : resilient children & shadow texts in Danticat's picture books / Cara Byrne -- 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 -- Haiti's past, present, and uncertain future : Danticat's New Yorker column as platform for public intellectualism / Maia Butler, Megan Feifer. Food, Haiti, and Haitian culinary-literary inheritances. Edwidge Danticat's kitchen history / Valerie Loichot -- "A people do not throw their geniuses away" : Danticat's "Kitchen poet" literary antecedents / Wilson C. Chen -- Scattering and gathering : Danticat, food, and (the) Haitian experience(s) / Robyn Cope -- 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 -- "So much had fallen into the sea" : an ecocritical approach to Danticat's Claire of the sea light / Kristina Gibby -- "Aha!" : Danticat and Creolization / Carine Mardorossian -- Memory and the possibilities of the short story sequence in Krik? Krak! / W. Todd Martin -- Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and transnational Hispaniola. 'Neither strangers nor friends' : transnational Hispaniola and the uneven intimacies of The farming of bones / John D. Ribo -- "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 -- Critical sources. Bibliography of writings by Edwidge Danticat -- Bibliography of literary criticism on Edwidge Danticat.<br>
Summary:
"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 Farming the Bones and Krik? Krak!, essays, journalism and writing for children, the Haitian American writer has tackled such important contemporary themes as racism, anti-immigrant politics, sexual violence and imperialism. 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: literary studies, politics, feminist and gender studies, race, and ecocriticism; Danticat's literary sources: from Zora Neale Hurston and Audre Lorde to Paule Marshall; Key contexts: Caribbean histories and cultures, experiences of imperialism, migration and diaspora. The book also includes a comprehensive bibliography of Danticat's work and key works of secondary criticism, as well as a new reflective piece by Danticat herself"-- Provided by publisher.
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