Edwidge Danticat
Subtitle: a reader's guide
By: edited by Martin Munro ; with a foreword by Dany Laferrière.
Contributors: Munro, Martin.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780813930213; 9780813930220
Subjects: Danticat, Edwidge, -- 1969- -- Criticism and interpretation -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Caribbean Area -- In literature
Genres: Handbooks, manuals, etc
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 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 / Regine Michelle Jean-Charles; title: Section two: Texts and analyses: Diasporic politics in 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 in The dew breaker / Mary Gallagher; title: Section three: Danticat and her peers; title: Section four: Interview and bibliography.