The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edwidge Danticat

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-Stéphen 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.

Contributor: Jana Evans Braziel (Edited by), Nadège T. Clitandre (Edited by)

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