Edwidge Danticat

In an interview with NPR, Danticat said: "I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, . . . poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles."

Books

  1. After the Dance: A Walk Through Carnival in Jacmel, Haiti The author returns to her native land to describe Jacmel, Haiti, in the week leading up to Carnival, in a series of essays that capture the cultural magic, music, and madness of Carnival.
  2. Behind the Mountains: The Diary of Celiane Esperance Writing in the notebook which her teacher gave her, thirteen-year-old Celiane describes life with her mother and brother in Haiti as well as her experiences in Brooklyn after the family finally immigrates there to be reunited with her father.
  3. Breath, Eyes, Memory At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from the impoverished village of Croix-des-Rosets to New York to be reunited with her mother, where she gains a legacy of shame that can only be healed when she returns to Haiti, to the woman who first reared her.
  4. Farming of Bones In 1937, on the Dominican side of the Haitian border, Amabelle, an orphaned maid to an army colonel's wife, falls in love with Sebastien, an itinerant sugarcane cutter, but their relationship is threatened by the violent persecution of the Haitians.
  5. Krik? Krak! Nine stories describe life under dictatorship in Haiti and the experiences of families who fled to the United States to start new lives.
  6. The Beacon Best of 2000: Great Writing by Women and Men of All Colors and Cultures A second annual collection of multicultural short stories, essays, and poetry features the work of such writers as Julia Alvarez, Isabel Allende, Sherman Alexie, Walter Mosley, Lois Ann Yamanaka, Ai, and other notables.
  7. The Butterfly's Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States An anthology of thirty-three essays and poems that explore the Haitian TmigrT experience focuses on four separate themes--Childhood, Migration, First Generation, and Return--in works by Jean-Robert Cadet, Marie Helen Laforest, Patricia Benoit, Gary Pierre-Pierre, Francie Latour, Babette Wainwright, and other writers. Original. 12,500 first printing.

Links to Other Resources

  1. "The Future Is In My Arms", by Edwidge Danticat Essay by Danticat published in _Essence_ magazine, about her 30th birthday and her newborn niece.
  2. EducETH: Edwidge Danticat Information on Edwidge Danticat, teaching information, teachers' and students' comments, synopsis of _Breath, Eyes, Memory_.
  3. Edwidge Danticat Information about Edwidge Danticat and her fiction.
  4. Edwidge Danticat A site with excellent essays about Danticat written by students of the University of Central Florida.
  5. Edwidge Danticat and the Caribbean's Extreme An essay by Anu Lakhan entitled "Manipulating Tradition: Haitian Writer Edwidge Danticat and the Caribbean's Extreme."
  6. Emory Postcolonial Web: Edwidge Danticat A comprehensive research site with biographic and bibliographic information, historical background, secondary resources about Danticat's fiction, and other links.
  7. Interview with Edwidge Danticat by Alexander Laurence An interview with Edwidge Danticat by a Brooklyn arts publication, Free Williamsburg.
  8. Oprah's Book Club: Edwidge Danticat Edwidge Danticat's novel _Breath, Eyes, Memory_ was selected for Oprah's Book Club in June 2000.
  9. Reader's Guide to _Krik? Krak!_ With information about Danticat, synopsis of each story.
  10. Readers Guide to Edwidge Danticat's _Krik? Krak!_ This guide provides summaries of the stories in _Krik? Krak!_, study questions, secondary sources and other resources.
  11. Voices From the Gaps: Edwidge Danticat This site provides biographic and bibliographic information, and secondary sources about Edwidge Danticat, as well as a discussion room.
  12. We are Ugly, but We are Here! A site devoted to Haitian-born artists Edwidge Danticat and William Coupon. With reviews, interviews, photos, images, and other resources.

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