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The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edwidge Danticat (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781350123526)
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xEdwidge 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 Bonesand 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-St駱hen 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.
Author: Jana Evans Braziel
ISBN-10: 1350123528
ISBN-13: 9781350123526
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 02/11/2021
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.06lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 1.00d
Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2021
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-St駱hen 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.
Author: Jana Evans Braziel
ISBN-10: 1350123528
ISBN-13: 9781350123526
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 02/11/2021
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.06lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 1.00d
Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2021
By Jana Evans Braziel
xJana Evans Braziel is Western College Endowed Professor of Global and Intercultural Studies at Miami University, USA. She is the author of five books, including Duvalier's Ghosts: Diaspora, and US Imperialism in Haitian Literature (2010) and Diaspora: An Introduction (2008).
Nad鑒e 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 Ha?i Soleil, a non-profit organization that focuses on engaging youth and building community through the development of libraries in Haiti.Recently Viewed Products
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