Edwidge Danticat : the Haitian diasporic imaginary / Nadege T. Clitandre.

"This work analyzes Danticat's exploration of the dialogic relationship between nation and diaspora. Clitandre argues that Danticat--moving between novels, short stories, and essays--articulates a diasporic consciousness that acts as a form of social, political, and cultural transformation...

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Main Author: Clitandre, Nadège T., 1977- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville ; London : University of Virginia Press, 2018.
Series:New World studies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Recall: the echo effect of historical silences
  • Echo chamber in Create Dangerously
  • Haitian echoes: tradition and nation in Breath, Eyes, Memory
  • The Dew Breaker as echo-monde
  • Voices from beyond the (unmarked) grave in The Farming of Bones
  • Epilogue: toward a globalectical imagination
  • Appendix: Interview with Edwidge Danticat.