Bloomsbury Handbook to Edwidge Danticat

Jana 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).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 non-profit organization that focuses on engaging youth and building community through the development of libraries in Haiti.

• I. LITERARY BEGINNINGSEditors’ IntroductionA Literary Life and Legacy: Danticat’s Writerly InheritancesJana 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 SaltEdwidge DanticatInterview with Edwidge DanticatNadège T. Clitandre, University of California, Santa Barbara, USAII. ON VIOLENCE AND VIOLATED BODIES: BIOPOLITICS IN DANTICAT’S TEXTSReconstructive Textual Surgery in Danticat’s Krik? Krak! and The Dew-BreakerJudith Misrahi-Barak, University Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, France“I Might Lose All My Life”: Brother, I’m Dying and (Black) Immigration Discourse in the USMyriam J. A. Chancy, Hartley Burr Alexander Chair in the Humanities, Scripps College, USA“Alleys, Capillaries, Thorns”: The Violated Terre-Natale of Ville RoseJana Evans Braziel, Western College Endowed Professor, Miami University, USAIII. ON DEATH AND DYING: NECROPOLITICS IN DANTICAT’S TEXTSLosing Your (M)Other: Danticat’s Narratives of Un/Belonging and Un/DyingSimone A. James Alexander, Seton Hall University, USALòt bò dlo: Producing Haitian Spaces of Death and Diaspora in Danticat’s The Dew BreakerAnne Brüske, Heidelberg University, GermanyDeath and the Maiden: Writing Death in Danticat’s FictionMarie-José Nzengou-Tayo (PhD), The University of the West Indies, Mona CampusIV. TIFI AK FANM, GIRLS AND WOMEN“Somebody, Anybody Sing a Black Girl’s Song…”: Danticat and Haitian Girlhood Régine Michelle Jean-Charles, Boston College, USAThe Good Daughter: Danticat’s Migrating MemoriesElizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw, University of the West Indies, Saint Augustine“I Am the One Telling It”: Resilient Children & Shadow Texts in Danticat’s Picture BooksCara Byrne, Case Western University, USAV. ECRI ANGAJE: POLITICAL WRITING: DANTICAT AS PUBLIC INTELLECTUALHaiti Faces Difficult Questions Ten Years After a Devastating EarthquakeEdwidge DanticatCreate Dangerously: A Poetics of Writing as Memorial Art; The Text as Echo ChamberAnja Bandau, Leibniz University Hannover, GermanyHaiti’s Past, Present, and Uncertain Future: Danticat’s New Yorker Column as Platform for Public IntellectualismMaia Butler, University of North Carolina-Wilmington, USAMegan Feifer, Medaille CollegeVI. FOOD, HAITI, AND HAITIAN CULINARY/LITERARY INHERITANCESEdwidge Danticat's Kitchen HistoryVale´rie Loichot, Emory University, USA“A People Do Not Throw Their Geniuses Away”: Danticat’s “Kitchen Poet” Literary Antecedents Wilson C. Chen, Benedictine University, USAScattering and Gathering: Danticat, Food, and (the) Haitian Experience(s)Robyn Cope, Binghamton University, USAVII. THEORETICAL APPROACHESSea, Stone, Sky, And Cemetery: Vodou’s Divine Nature and Religious Archetypes in Danticat’s Krik? Krak! and After the DanceKyrah Malika Daniels, Boston College, USA “So Much Had Fallen into The Sea”: An Ecocritical Approach to Danticat’s Claire of the Sea LightKristina Gibby, Utah Valley University, USA“Aha!”: Danticat and Creolization Carine Mardorossian, State University at Buffalo, USAMemory and The Possibilities of the Short Story Sequence in Krik? Krak!W. Todd Martin, Huntington University, USAVIII. HAITI, THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, AND TRANSNATIONAL HISPANIOLA‘Neither Strangers Nor Friends’: Transnational Hispaniola and the Uneven Intimacies of The Farming of BonesJohn D. Ribó, Florida State University, USA“Walk too far in either direction and people speak a different language”: Navigating Hispaniola in Edwidge Danticat’s The Farming of Bones and “Nineteen Thirty-Seven”Ramon Ant. Victoriano-Martinez, University of Toronto Mississauga, CanadaIX. CRITICAL SOURCESBibliography of Writings by Edwidge DanticatBibliography of Literary Criticism on Edwidge DanticatBiographical NotesIndex

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edwidge Danticat is a true first. It is a collection of luminous essays written by first-rate international writers and a welcome addition to the existing scholarship on a prolific Haitian American author known for her skill at handling numerous genres.