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Narrating History, Home, and Dyaspora - Critical Essays on Edwidge Danticat (Paperback) Loot Price: R927
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Narrating History, Home, and Dyaspora - Critical Essays on Edwidge Danticat (Paperback): Maia L. Butler, Joanna Davis...

Narrating History, Home, and Dyaspora - Critical Essays on Edwidge Danticat (Paperback)

Maia L. Butler, Joanna Davis McElligatt, Megan Feifer; Nadege T. Clitandre, Thadious Davis

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Contributions by Cecile Accilien, Maria Rice Bellamy, Gwen Bergner, Olga Blomgren, Maia L. Butler, Isabel Caldeira, Nadege T. Clitandre, Thadious Davis, Joanna Davis-McElligatt, Laura Dawkins, Megan Feifer, Delphine Gras, Akia Jackson, Tammie Jenkins, Shewonda Leger, Jennifer Lozano, Marion Rohrleitner, Thomas Rothe, Erika Serrato, Lucia Stecher, and Joyce White 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.

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Imprint: University Press Of Mississippi
Country of origin: United States
Release date: June 2022
Editors: Maia L. Butler • Joanna Davis McElligatt • Megan Feifer
Authors: Nadege T. Clitandre • Thadious Davis
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 978-1-4968-3988-6
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Black studies
LSN: 1-4968-3988-9
Barcode: 9781496839886

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