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Zusatztext A timely compilation of essays; a beloved talented writer! This amazing combination enriches our libraries but above all our joy in reading and teaching the work of our lovely Edwidge Danticat. Described by many as a Caribbean griot because of her love for stories and their histories, and her ability to tell and write them, the literary world of this major exponent of Caribbean and Black Women's writing in international contexts is brought into our myriad spaces of political and intellectual consciousness. Informationen zum Autor Jana Evans Braziel is Western College Endowed Professor and chair of the Department of Global and Intercultural Studies at Miami University. She is the author of five books, including Duvalier’s Ghosts: Diaspora, and US Imperialism in Haitian Literature (2010) and Diaspora: An Introduction (2008) . Nadège T. Clitandre is Associate Professor in Global Studies at the University of California-Santa Barbara., USA. She is author of Edwidge Danticat: The Haitian Diasporic Imaginary (2018) and founder of Haïti Soleil, a nonprofit organization that focuses on engaging youth and building community through the development of libraries in Haiti. Vorwort A complete and up-to-date reference guide to contemporary scholarship on the Haitian American writer Edwidge Danticat, with chapters written by leading and emerging international scholars. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis I. LITERARY BEGINNINGS Editors’ Introduction A Literary Life and Legacy: Danticat’s Writerly Inheritances Jana Evans Braziel, Western College Endowed Professor, Miami University, USANadège T. Clitandre, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA “All Geography Is Within Me”: Writing Beginnings, Life, Death, Freedom, and Salt Edwidge Danticat Interview with Edwidge Danticat Nadège T. Clitandre, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA II. ON VIOLENCE AND VIOLATED BODIES: BIOPOLITICS IN DANTICAT’S TEXTS Reconstructive Textual Surgery in Danticat’s Krik? Krak! and The Dew-BreakerJudith M...
