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-Stephen 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.
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