{"product_id":"the-bloomsbury-handbook-to-edwidge-danticat-9781350210653","title":"The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edwidge Danticat","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdwidge 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, \u003ci\u003eFarming the Bones \u003c\/i\u003eand short story collections such as  \u003ci\u003eKrik? Krak!\u003c\/i\u003e and most recently \u003ci\u003eEverything Inside\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003ci\u003eThe Bloomsbury Handbook to Edwidge Danticat\u003c\/i\u003e 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 litera\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Bloomsbury Handbook to Edwidge Danticat\u003c\/i\u003e 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. * English Studies *\u003cbr\u003eThis edited collection is a comprehensive analysis of Danticat’s writing from multi-themes, multi-genres, and multi-dimensions. Through exploring insightful intertexts and situating her work carefully in context, this collection emphasizes Danticat’s significant contribution to Black literature and represents new directions in the study of her works. * Contemporary Women's Writing *\u003cbr\u003eThe book highlights various points of entry into Danticat’s impressive oeuvre and would be a fantastic component of a course on the author. It should definitely be owned by every academic library. * H-Net Reviews *\u003cbr\u003eEdwidge Danticat continues to be a shining light in contemporary literature, her brilliance radiating through and beyond Haitian, Caribbean, and American writing. This exciting new volume will be an essential guide for scholars, students, and general readers. Chapters range through themes as diverse as death, disaster, food, girlhood, creolization, and memory, and together are as rich and diverse as Danticat's own ever-evolving body of work. * Martin Munro, Eminent Scholar and Winthrop-King Professor of French and Francophone Studies, Florida State University, USA *\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eHandbook to Edwidge Danticat\u003c\/i\u003e is an extraordinarily rich and varied exploration of the kaleidoscopic arc of Danticat's writings. Its unrivaled comparative and interdisciplinary scope, with pivotal contributions from a broad range of her most insightful and committed readers, as well as the author herself, marks a definitive and essential contribution to our understanding of Edwidge Danticat's lyrical exploration of Haitian cultural and diasporic experience. * Professor Nick Nesbitt, Princeton University, USA *\u003cbr\u003eA timely compilation of essays; a beloved talented writer!  This amazing combination enriches our libraries but above all our joy in reading  and teaching the work of our lovely Edwidge Danticat.  Described by many as a Caribbean griot because of her love for stories and their histories, and her ability to tell and write them, the literary world of this major exponent of  Caribbean and Black Women's writing in international contexts is brought into our myriad spaces of political and intellectual consciousness. * Carole Boyce-Davies, Frank H.T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters and Professor of Africana Studies and English Africana Studies, Cornell University, USA *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eI.  \u003ci\u003eLITERARY BEGINNINGS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e   Editors’ Introduction \u003ci\u003eA Literary Life and Legacy: Danticat’s Writerly Inheritances\u003c\/i\u003e Jana Evans Braziel, Western College Endowed Professor, Miami University, USA Nadège T. Clitandre, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA   \u003ci\u003e“All Geography Is Within Me”: Writing Beginnings, Life, Death, Freedom, and Salt\u003c\/i\u003e Edwidge Danticat   \u003ci\u003eInterview with Edwidge Danticat\u003c\/i\u003e Nadège T. Clitandre, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA     \u003cb\u003eII.  \u003ci\u003eON VIOLENCE AND VIOLATED BODIES: BIOPOLITICS IN DANTICAT’S TEXTS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e   \u003ci\u003eReconstructive Textual Surgery in Danticat’s \u003c\/i\u003eKrik? Krak!\u003ci\u003e and \u003c\/i\u003eThe Dew-Breaker Judith Misrahi-Barak, University Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, France   “I Might Lose All My Life”: Brother, I’m Dying and (Black) Immigration Discourse in the US Myriam J. A. Chancy, Hartley Burr Alexander Chair in the Humanities, Scripps College, USA   “Alleys, Capillaries, Thorns”: The Violated Terre-Natale of Ville Rose Jana Evans Braziel, Western College Endowed Professor, Miami University, USA \u003cb\u003eIII.  \u003ci\u003eON DEATH AND DYING: NECROPOLITICS IN DANTICAT’S TEXTS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e   \u003ci\u003eLosing Your (M)Other: Danticat’s Narratives of Un\/Belonging and Un\/Dying\u003c\/i\u003e Simone A. James Alexander, Seton Hall University, USA   \u003ci\u003eLòt bò dlo: Producing Haitian Spaces of Death and Diaspora in Danticat’s \u003c\/i\u003eThe Dew Breaker Anne Brüske, Heidelberg University, Germany   \u003ci\u003eDeath and the Maiden: Writing Death in Danticat’s Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e Marie-José Nzengou-Tayo (PhD), The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus     \u003cb\u003eIV.  \u003ci\u003eTIFI AK FANM, GIRLS AND WOMEN\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e   \u003ci\u003e“Somebody, Anybody Sing a Black Girl’s Song…”: Danticat and Haitian Girlhood \u003c\/i\u003e Régine Michelle Jean-Charles, Boston College, USA   \u003ci\u003eThe Good Daughter: Danticat’s Migrating Memories\u003c\/i\u003e Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw, University of the West Indies, Saint Augustine   \u003ci\u003e“I Am the One Telling It”: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eResilient Children \u0026amp; Shadow Texts in Danticat’s Picture Books\u003c\/i\u003e Cara Byrne, Case Western University, USA       \u003cb\u003eV.  \u003ci\u003eECRI ANGAJE: POLITICAL WRITING: DANTICAT AS PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e   \u003ci\u003eHaiti Faces Difficult Questions Ten Years After a Devastating Earthquake\u003c\/i\u003e Edwidge Danticat   Create Dangerously\u003ci\u003e: A Poetics of Writing as Memorial Art; The Text as Echo Chamber\u003c\/i\u003e Anja Bandau, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany   \u003ci\u003eHaiti’s Past, Present, and Uncertain Future: Danticat’s New Yorker Column as Platform for Public Intellectualism\u003c\/i\u003e Maia Butler, University of North Carolina-Wilmington, USA Megan Feifer, Medaille College     \u003cb\u003eVI.  \u003ci\u003eFOOD, HAITI, AND HAITIAN CULINARY\/LITERARY INHERITANCES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e   \u003ci\u003eEdwidge Danticat's Kitchen History\u003c\/i\u003e Vale´rie Loichot, Emory University, USA   \u003ci\u003e“A People Do Not Throw Their Geniuses Away”: Danticat’s “Kitchen Poet” Literary Antecedents \u003c\/i\u003e Wilson C. Chen, Benedictine University, USA   \u003ci\u003eScattering and Gathering: Danticat, Food, and (the) Haitian Experience(s)\u003c\/i\u003e Robyn Cope, Binghamton University, USA       \u003cb\u003eVII.\u003ci\u003e THEORETICAL APPROACHES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e   \u003ci\u003eSea, Stone, Sky, And Cemetery\u003c\/i\u003e:  Vodou’s Divine Nature and Religious Archetypes in Danticat’s \u003ci\u003eKrik? Krak! \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eAfter the Dance\u003c\/i\u003e Kyrah Malika Daniels, Boston College, USA    \u003ci\u003e“So Much Had Fallen into The Sea”: An Ecocritical Approach to Danticat’s \u003c\/i\u003eClaire of the Sea Light Kristina Gibby, Utah Valley University, USA   \u003ci\u003e“Aha!”: Danticat and Creolization  \u003c\/i\u003e Carine Mardorossian, State University at Buffalo, USA   \u003ci\u003eMemory and The Possibilities of the Short Story Sequence in \u003c\/i\u003eKrik? Krak! W. Todd Martin, Huntington University, USA     \u003cb\u003eVIII. \u003ci\u003eHAITI, THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, AND TRANSNATIONAL HISPANIOLA\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e   \u003ci\u003e‘Neither Strangers Nor Friends’: Transnational Hispaniola and the Uneven Intimacies of \u003c\/i\u003eThe Farming of Bones John D. Ribó, Florida State University, USA   \u003ci\u003e“Walk too far in either direction and people speak a different language”: Navigating Hispaniola in Edwidge Danticat’s \u003c\/i\u003eThe Farming of Bones \u003ci\u003eand “Nineteen Thirty-Seven”\u003c\/i\u003e Ramon Ant. Victoriano-Martinez, University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada       \u003cb\u003eIX.  CRITICAL SOURCES\u003c\/b\u003e   Bibliography of Writings by Edwidge Danticat   Bibliography of Literary Criticism on Edwidge Danticat   Biographical Notes     Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019638604119,"sku":"9781350210653","price":39.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350210653.jpg?v=1750780869","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-bloomsbury-handbook-to-edwidge-danticat-9781350210653","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}