The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edwidge Danticat

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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 Farming the Bones and Krik? Krak!, essays, journalism and writing for children, the Haitian American writer has tackled such important contemporary themes as racism, anti-immigrant politics, sexual violence and imperialism. 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 book also includes a comprehensive bibliography of Danticat’s work and key works of secondary criticism, as well as a new reflective piece by Danticat herself. Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgments Part I Literary Beginnings Editors’ Introduction: A Literary Life and Legacy: Danticat's Writerly Inheritances Chapter 1 “All Geography is Within Me”: Writing Beginnings, Life, Death, Freedom, and Salt Chapter 2 Interview With Edwidge Danticat Part II On Violence and Violated Bodies: Biopolitics in Danticat’s Texts Chapter 3 Reconstructive Textual Surgery in Danticat’s .Krik? Krak! and the Dew Breaker Chapter 4 “I Might Lose All My Life”: Brother, I’m Dying and (Black) Immigration Discourse in the Unitted States Chapter 5 Alleys, Capillaries, Thorns: The Violated Terre-Natale of Ville Rose Part III On Death and Dying: Necropolitics in Danticat’s Texts Chapter 6 Losing Your (m)other: danticat’s Narratives Of Un/belonging And Un/dying (.simone A. james Alexander.) Chapter 7 Lòt Bò Dlo: Producing Haitian Spaces of Death and Diaspora in Danticat’s the Dew Breaker Chapter 8 Death and the Maiden: Writing Death in Danticat’s Fiction Part IV Tifis Ak Fanm, Girls and Women Chapter 9 “Somebody, Anybody Sing a Black Girl’s Song …”: Danticat and Haitian Girlhood Chapter 10 The Good Daughter: Danticat’s Migrating Memories Chapter 11 “I am the One Telling it”: Resilient Children, Familial Bonds, and Haitian Heritage in Danticat’s Picture Books Part V Ecri Angaje: Political Writing: Danticat as Public Intellectual Chapter 12 Haiti Faces Difficult Questions Ten Years after a Devastating Earthquake Chapter 13 Create Dangerously: A Poetics of Writing as Memorial Art; the Text as Echo Chamber Chapter 14 Haiti’s Past, Present, And Uncertain Future: Danticat's New Yorker Column as Platform for Public Intellectualism Part VI Food, Haiti, and Haitian Culinary/literary Inheritances Chapter 15 Edwidge Danticat’s Kitchen History Chapter 16 “A People do not Throw Their Geniuses Away”: Danticat's "Kitchen Poet" Literary Antecedents Chapter 17 Scattering And Gathering: Danticar, Food, and (the) 'Haitian Experience(s) Part VII Theoretical Approaches Chapter 18 Sea, Stone, Sky, and Cemetery: Vodou’s Divine Nature and Religious Archetypes in Danticat’s Krik? Krak! and After the Dance Chapter 19 “So Much Had Fallen into the Sea”: An Ecocritical Approach to Danticat's Claire of the Sea Light Chapter 20 “Aha!”: Danticat and Creolization Chapter 21 Memory and rhe Possibilities of the Short Story Sequence in Krik? Krak! Part VIII Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Transnational Hispaniola Chapter 22 “Neither Strangers Nor Friends”: Transnational Hispaniola and the Uneven Inticacies of the Farming of Bones Chapter 23 “Walk Too Far in Either Direction and People Speak a Different Language”: Navigation Hispaniola in Danticat's the Farming of Bones Part IX Critical Sources Bibliography of Writings by Edwidge Danticat Bibliography of Literary Criticism on Edwidge Danticat Contributors Index