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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