Narrating History, Home, and Dyaspora
by Maia L. Butler, Joanna Davis-McElligatt, Megan Feifer, Nadège T. Clitandre, Thadious Davis
Haitian DyasporaTransnationalism and postnationalismStorytellingBelongingAlternate histories and historiographiesdiasporic literatureHaitian literatureHaiti, fiction
"*Narrating History, Home, and Dyaspora: Critical Essays on Edwidge Danticat* is comprised of fifteen critical essays exploring a broad range of Edwidge Danticat’s ouevre, including journalism, novels, short fiction, young adult and children’s literature, memoirs, activism, and public intellectual scholarship. This collection brings together an international body of scholars who examine Danticat’s revolutionary work on alternate histories and historiographies, narratives of nation states and national belonging, and conceptions of home and homelands." - publisher
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