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Edwidge Danticat
A collection of exceptional new essays by one of the most significant contemporary writers on the world stage.
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A collection of exceptional new essays by one of the most significant contemporary writers on the world stage
Tracing a loose arc from Edwidge Danticat's childhood to the COVID-19 pandemic…
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From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of Brother, I’m Dying, a collection of vividly imagined stories about community, family, and love.
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Returning to the cosmological and ontological center of Africana spirituality, Ecology, Spirituality, and Cosmology in Edwidge Danticat: Crossroads as Ritual explores the ways in which Danticat texts awaken Africana consciousness…
The first monograph dedicated to the life and legacy of an under-recognized artist killed in the September 11 attacks
American artist Michael Richards (1963-2001) was born in Brooklyn and raised…
Danticat’s groundbreaking debut novel with a new introduction from Bernardine Evaristo
Sheds a much-needed light on Edwidge Danticat and her ability to depict timely issues in sparkling prose that delves deep into the borderlands, an uncharted in-between space located outside fixed…
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Collected interviews ranging from the 2000 publication of this award-winning Haitian-American author’s debut work of fiction, Breath, Eyes, Memory, to a personal interview conducted with the volume editor in 2016
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…
Michael Dash * Charles Forsdick * Mary Gallagher * Regine Michelle Jean-Charles * Carine Mardorossian * Nadeve Menard * Martin Munro * Nick Nesbitt * Mireille Rosello * Renee H…
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Tragic, sometimes horrifying, yet so beautifully told that they leave the reader breathless, these nine stories of life in Haiti under dictatorships reveals the linkage of generations of Haitian women…
Edwidge Danticat had long been scared off from Carnival by a loved one, who spun tales of people dislocating hips from gyrating with too much abandon, losing their voices from…
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Il n'y a aucun probleme qu'une mere ne peut pas regler. Que ce soit une blessure au genou ou une mauvaise journee, elle a toujours…
The best anthology of classic Haitian fiction ever assembled, unparalleled in scope.
Originally published in the United States by Crown Journeys… New York, in 2002. –Title page verso.
Focuses on art and exile, examining what it means to be an immigrant artist from a country in crisis. This title tells the stories of artists, including the author, who…
In this collection of 33 essays and poems, the experience of the Haitian emigre is described, with the works divided into four sections: childhood, migration, first generation, and return. Each…
From the universally acclaimed author of Breath, Eyes, Memory comes a brilliant, deeply moving work of fiction that explores the world of a dew breaker –a torturer–a man whose brutal…
1937, and Amabelle Desir is a young Haitian woman working as a maid for a wealthy family in the Dominican Republic. Racial tensions are heightened when Amabelle’s boss accidentally kills…
Examining the lives of ordinary Haitians, particularly those struggling to survive under the brutal Duvalier regime, Danticat illuminates the distance between people’s desires and the stifling reality of their lives…
A haunting and mesmerizing story about sisterhood, family, love, and loss by literary luminary Edwidge Danticat.
A New York Times bestseller from the award-winning author brings diverse Haitian townspeople together in the search for a missing girl.
A moving reflection on a subject that touches us all, by the bestselling author of Claire of the Sea LightEdwidge Danticat’s The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story is…
Akashic stages a major coup in recruiting Edwidge Danticat, one of the truly great contemporary writers, to edit this volume.
Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House LLC, New York, in 2013 –Title page verso.
From the bestselling author of Claire of the Sea Light and Brother, I’m Dying comes a long-awaited return to fiction: a gorgeous collection of stories about community, family, and love.
This book was originally published in hardcover by Orchard Books in 2002.
From the award-winning author of The Dew Breaker comes her first work of nonfiction: a deeply affecting story of home and family, of two men’s lives and deaths, and of…
From the acclaimed author of Krik? Krak! . 1937: On the Dominican side of the Haiti border, Amabelle, a maid to the young wife of an army colonel falls in…
When her mother leaves Haiti to find work in the US, Sophie is raised by her aunt. Their parting, years later, when her mother sends for her, is as wrenching…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Edwidge Danticat’s Ghosts , excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…
Nadege T. Clitandre
Offers a comprehensive analysis of Edwidge Danticat’s exploration of the dialogic relationship between nation and diaspora. NadTHge T. Clitandre argues that Danticat - moving between novels, short stories, and essays…
Providing an intellectual interpretation to the work of Edwidge Danticat, this new edited collection provides a pedagogical approach to teach and interpret her body of work in undergraduate and graduate…
Mary Ellen Snodgrass
A comet in the mounting firmament of third-world, non-white, female writers, Edwidge Danticat stands apart. This companion provides an in-depth look into the world and writings of Danticat through A-Z…
A Study Guide for Edwidge Danticat’s Caroline’s Wedding, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…
A Study Guide for Edwidge Danticat’s Children of the Sea, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study…
A Study Guide for Edwidge Danticat’s Night Talkers, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…
A Study Guide for Edwidge Danticat’s The Farming of Bones, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Literature of Developing Nations for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author…
A Study Guide for Edwidge Danticat’s Dew Breaker, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…
James Baldwin
Originally published in 1953, this is a hardcover edition of James Baldwin’s classic coming-of-age novel set in Harlem in the 1930s, with a new introduction by Edwidge Danticat –
Joyce White
A Study Guide for Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…
