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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Charlottesville ; London :
University of Virginia Press,
2018.
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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.