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The Dew Breaker

Author	: Edwidge Danticat
Publisher	: Vintage
Release Date	: 2007-12-18
ISBN 10	: 9780307428394
Pages	: 258 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (283 users)

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Download or read book The Dew Breaker written by Edwidge Danticat and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We meet him late in life: a quiet man, a good father and husband, a fixture in his Brooklyn neighborhood, a landlord and barber with a terrifying scar across his face. As the book unfolds, moving seamlessly between Haiti in the 1960s and New York City today, we enter the lives of those around him, and learn that he has also kept a vital, dangerous secret. Edwidge Danticat’s brilliant exploration of the “dew breaker”--or torturer--s an unforgettable story of love, remorse, and hope; of personal and political rebellions; and of the compromises we make to move beyond the most intimate brushes with history. It firmly establishes her as one of America’s most essential writers. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Edwidge Danticat's Claire of the Sea Light.

A Study Guide for Edwidge Danticat's "Dew Breaker"

Author	: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher	: Gale, Cengage Learning
Release Date	: 2016-06-29
ISBN 10	: 9781410344250
Pages	: 24 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (442 users)

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Download or read book A Study Guide for Edwidge Danticat's "Dew Breaker" written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2016-06-29 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.

Writing African American Women

Author	: Elizabeth Ann Beaulieu
Publisher	: Greenwood Publishing Group
Release Date	: 2006
ISBN 10	: 9780313024627
Pages	: 1034 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (246 users)

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Download or read book Writing African American Women written by Elizabeth Ann Beaulieu and published by Greenwood Publishing Group. This book was released on 2006 with total page 1034 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edwidge Danticat

Author	: Jana Evans Braziel
Publisher	: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date	: 2021-01-28
ISBN 10	: 9781350123533
Pages	: 464 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (235 users)

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Download or read book The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edwidge Danticat written by Jana Evans Braziel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 and 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-Stéphen 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.

Edwidge Danticat

Author	: Nadège T. Clitandre
Publisher	: University of Virginia Press
Release Date	: 2018-11-14
ISBN 10	: 9780813941882
Pages	: 272 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (418 users)

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Download or read book Edwidge Danticat written by Nadège T. Clitandre and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2018-11-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat is one of the most recognized writers today. Her debut novel, Breath, Eyes, Memory, was an Oprah Book Club selection, and works such as Krik? Krak! and Brother, I’m Dying have earned her a MacArthur "genius" grant and National Book Award nominations. Yet despite international acclaim and the relevance of her writings to postcolonial, feminist, Caribbean, African diaspora, Haitian, literary, and global studies, Danticat’s work has not been the subject of a full-length interpretive literary analysis until now. In Edwidge Danticat: The Haitian Diasporic Imaginary, Nadège T. Clitandre offers a comprehensive analysis of Danticat’s exploration of the dialogic relationship between nation and diaspora. Clitandre argues that Danticat—moving between novels, short stories, and essays—articulates a diasporic consciousness that acts as a form of social, political, and cultural transformation at the local and global level. Using the echo trope to approach Danticat’s narratives and subjects, Clitandre effectively navigates between the reality of diaspora and imaginative opportunities that diasporas produce. Ultimately, Clitandre calls for a reconstitution of nation through a diasporic imaginary that informs the way people who have experienced displacement view the world and imagine a more diverse, interconnected, and just future.

Narrating History, Home, and Dyaspora

Author	: Maia L. Butler
Publisher	: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date	: 2022-06-27
ISBN 10	: 9781496839893
Pages	: 284 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (398 users)

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Download or read book Narrating History, Home, and Dyaspora written by Maia L. Butler and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2022-06-27 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributions by Cécile Accilien, Maria Rice Bellamy, Gwen Bergner, Olga Blomgren, Maia L. Butler, Isabel Caldeira, Nadège T. Clitandre, Thadious M. Davis, Joanna Davis-McElligatt, Laura Dawkins, Megan Feifer, Delphine Gras, Akia Jackson, Tammie Jenkins, Shewonda Leger, Jennifer M. Lozano, Marion Christina Rohrleitner, Thomás Rothe, Erika V. Serrato, Lucía Stecher, and Joyce White Narrating History, Home, and Dyaspora: Critical Essays on Edwidge Danticat contains fifteen essays addressing how Edwidge Danticat’s writing, anthologizing, and storytelling trace, (re)construct, and develop alternate histories, narratives of nation building, and conceptions of home and belonging. The prolific Danticat is renowned for novels, collections of short fiction, nonfiction, and editorial writing. As her experimentation in form expands, so does her force as a public intellectual. Danticat’s literary representations, political commentary, and personal activism have proven vital to classroom and community work imagining radical futures. Among increasing anti-immigrant sentiment and containment and rampant ecological volatility, Danticat’s contributions to public discourse, art, and culture deserve sustained critical attention. These essays offer essential perspectives to scholars, public intellectuals, and students interested in African diasporic, Haitian, Caribbean, and transnational American literary studies. This collection frames Danticat’s work as an indictment of statelessness, racialized and gendered state violence, and the persistence of political and economic margins. The first section of this volume, “The Other Side of the Water,” engages with Danticat’s construction and negotiation of nation, both in Haiti and the United States; the broader dyaspora; and her own, her family’s, and her fictional characters’ places within them. The second section, “Welcoming Ghosts,” delves into the ever-present specter of history and memory, prominent themes found throughout Danticat’s work. From origin stories to broader Haitian histories, this section addresses the underlying traumas involved when remembering the past and its relationship to the present. The third section, “I Speak Out,” explores the imperative to speak, paying particular attention to the narrative form with which such telling occurs. The fourth and final section, “Create Dangerously,” contends with Haitians’ activism, community building, and the political and ecological climate of Haiti and its dyaspora.

Caribbean Women Writers and Globalization

Author	: Helen Scott
Publisher	: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date	: 2006
ISBN 10	: 0754651347
Pages	: 220 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (47 users)

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Download or read book Caribbean Women Writers and Globalization written by Helen Scott and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helen Scott approaches contemporary Caribbean women's writing in the context of global and local economic forces. Considering each text within its national historical and cultural origins while acknowledging regional and international patterns, Scott examines the dynamics of imperialism and illuminates the specific aesthetic qualities that reach beyond the confines of geography and history in the work of such writers as Oonya Kempadoo, Jamaica Kincaid, Edwidge Danticat, Pauline Melville, and Janice Shinebourne.

Approaches to Teaching the Works of Edwidge Danticat

Author	: Celucien L. Joseph
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2019-09-20
ISBN 10	: 9781000012521
Pages	: 366 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (125 users)

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Download or read book Approaches to Teaching the Works of Edwidge Danticat written by Celucien L. Joseph and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-20 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 classrooms. Approaches to Teaching the Works of Edwidge Danticat starts out by exploring diasporic categories and postcolonial themes such as gender constructs, cultural nationalism, cultural and communal identity, and moves to investigate Danticat’s human rights activism, the immigrant experience, the relationship between the particular and the universal, and the violence of hegemony and imperialism in relationship with society, family, and community. The Editors of the collection have carefully compiled works that show how Danticat’s writings may help in building more compassionate and relational human communities that are grounded on the imperative of human dignity, respect, inclusion, and peace.

Transnational Negotiations in Caribbean Diasporic Literature

Author	: Kezia Page
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2010-09-13
ISBN 10	: 9781136921988
Pages	: 169 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (219 users)

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Download or read book Transnational Negotiations in Caribbean Diasporic Literature written by Kezia Page and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-13 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Page casts light on the role of citizenship, immigration, and transnational mobility in Caribbean migrant and diaspora fiction. Page's historical, socio-cultural study responds to the general trend in migration discourse that presents the Caribbean experience as unidirectional and uniform across the geographical spaces of home and diaspora. She argues that engaging the Caribbean diaspora and the massive waves of migration from the region that have punctuated its history, involves not only understanding communities in host countries and the conflicted identities of second generation subjectivities, but also interpreting how these communities interrelate with and affect communities at home. In particular, Page examines two socio-economic and political practices, remittance and deportation, exploring how they function as tropes in migrant literature, and as ways of theorizing such literature.

Vodou in Haitian Memory

Author	: Celucien L. Joseph
Publisher	: Lexington Books
Release Date	: 2016-05-12
ISBN 10	: 9781498508353
Pages	: 280 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (83 users)

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Download or read book Vodou in Haitian Memory written by Celucien L. Joseph and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vodou in Haitian Memory examines the idea and representation of the Haitian Vodou in Haitin history, art, painting, aesthetics, and culture. Vodou is also studied from multiple theoretical approaches including queer, feminist theory, critical race theory, Marxism, postcolonial criticism, postmodernism, and psychoanalysis.

Reading/Speaking/Writing the Mother Text; Essays on Caribbean Women's Writing

Author	: Cristina Herrera
Publisher	: Demeter Press
Release Date	: 2015-08-01
ISBN 10	: 9781772580273
Pages	: 256 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (82 users)

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Download or read book Reading/Speaking/Writing the Mother Text; Essays on Caribbean Women's Writing written by Cristina Herrera and published by Demeter Press. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While scholarship on Caribbean women’s literature has grown into an established discipline, there are not many studies explicitly connected to the maternal subject matter, and among them only a few book-length texts have focalized motherhood and maternity in writings by Caribbean women. Reading/Speaking/Writing the Mother Text: Essays on Caribbean Women’s Writing encourages a crucial dialogue surrounding the state of motherhood scholarship within the Caribbean literary landscape, to call for attention on a theme that, although highly visible, remains understudied by academics. While this collection presents a similar comparative and diasporic approach to other book-length studies on Caribbean women’s writing, it deals with the complexity of including a wider geographical, linguistic, ethnic and generic diversity, while exposing the myriad ways in which Caribbean women authors shape and construct their texts to theorize motherhood, mothering, maternity, and mother-daughter relationships.

Race and Real Estate

Author	: Adrienne R. Brown
Publisher	: Transgressing Boundaries: Stud
Release Date	: 2015
ISBN 10	: 9780199977277
Pages	: 352 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (772 users)

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Download or read book Race and Real Estate written by Adrienne R. Brown and published by Transgressing Boundaries: Stud. This book was released on 2015 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Race and Real Estate brings together new work by architects, sociologists, legal scholars, and literary critics that qualifies and complicates traditional narratives of race, property, and citizenship in the United States. Rather than simply rehearsing the standard account of how blacks were historically excluded from homeownership, the authors of these essays explore how the raced history of property affects understandings of home and citizenship. While the narrative of race and real estate in America has usually been relayed in terms of institutional subjugation, dispossession, and forced segregation, the essays collected in this volume acknowledge the validity of these histories while presenting new perspectives on this story.

Edwidge Danticat

Author	: Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Publisher	: McFarland
Release Date	: 2022-05-23
ISBN 10	: 9781476687155
Pages	: 282 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (871 users)

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Download or read book Edwidge Danticat written by Mary Ellen Snodgrass and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-05-23 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comet in the mounting firmament of third-world, non-white, female writers, Edwidge Danticat stands apart. An accomplished trilingual children's and YA author, she is also an activist, op-ed and cinema writer, and keynote speaker. Much of her work introduces the world to the cultural uniqueness of Haiti, the first black republic, and the elements of African heritage, language, and Vodou that continue to color all aspects of the island's art and self-expression. This companion provides an in-depth look into the world and writings of Danticat through A-Z entries. These entries cover both her works and the prevalent themes of her writing, including colonialism, slavery, superstition, adaptation, dreams and coming of age. It also provides a biography of Danticat, a list of 32 aphorisms from her fiction, a guide to the names and histories of the real places in her fiction, lesson planning aids, and a robust glossary offering translations and definitions for the many Creole, French, Japanese, Latin, Spanish, and Taino terms in Danticat's writing.

Routledge International Handbook of Social Justice

Author	: Michael Reisch
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2014-04-03
ISBN 10	: 9781317934004
Pages	: 560 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (34 users)

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Download or read book Routledge International Handbook of Social Justice written by Michael Reisch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-03 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world where genocide, hunger, poverty, war, and disease persist and where richer nations often fail to act to address these problems or act too late, a prerequisite to achieving even modest social justice goals is to clarify the meaning of competing discourses on the concept. Throughout history, calls for social justice have been used to rationalize the status quo, promote modest reforms, and justify revolutionary, even violent action. Ironically, as the prominence of the concept has risen, the meaning of social justice has become increasingly obscured. This authoritative volume explores different perspectives on social justice and what its attainment would involve. It addresses key issues, such as resolving fundamental questions about human nature and social relationships; the distribution of resources, power, status, rights, access, and opportunities; and the means by which decisions regarding this distribution are made. Illustrating the complexity of the topic, it presents a range of international, historical, and theoretical perspectives, and discusses the dilemmas inherent in implementing social justice concepts in policy and practice. Covering more than abstract definitions of social justice, it also includes multiple examples of how social justice might be achieved at the interpersonal, organizational, community, and societal levels. With contributions from leading scholars around the globe, Reisch has put together a magisterial and multi-faceted overview of social justice. It is an essential reference work for all scholars with an interest in social justice from a wide range of disciplines, including social work, public policy, public health, law, criminology, sociology, and education.

Recharting the Black Atlantic

Author	: Annalisa Oboe
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2011-04-13
ISBN 10	: 9781135899738
Pages	: 438 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (997 users)

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Download or read book Recharting the Black Atlantic written by Annalisa Oboe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-04-13 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the migrations and metamorphoses of black bodies, practices, and discourses around the Atlantic, particularly with regard to current issues such as questions of identity, political and human rights, cosmopolitics, and mnemo-history.

Notions of Identity, Diaspora, and Gender in Caribbean Women's Writing

Author	: B. Mehta
Publisher	: Springer
Release Date	: 2009-09-14
ISBN 10	: 9780230100503
Pages	: 235 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (5 users)

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Download or read book Notions of Identity, Diaspora, and Gender in Caribbean Women's Writing written by B. Mehta and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-09-14 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Notions of Identity, Diaspora, and Gender in Caribbean Women's Writing uses a unique four-dimensional lens to frame questions of diaspora and gender in the writings of women from Martinique, Guadeloupe, and Haiti. These divergent and interconnected perspectives include violence, trauma, resistance, and expanded notions of Caribbean identity. In these writings, diaspora represents both a wound created by slavery and Indian indenture and the discursive praxis of defining new identities and cultural possibilities. These framings of identity provide inclusive and complex readings of transcultural Caribbean diasporas, especially in terms of gender and minority cultures.

Postcolonial Parabola

Author	: Jay Rajiva
Publisher	: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date	: 2017-09-21
ISBN 10	: 9781501325366
Pages	: 208 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (253 users)

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Download or read book Postcolonial Parabola written by Jay Rajiva and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postcolonial Parabola: Literature, Tactility, and the Ethics of Representing Trauma interrogates the relationship between the literary representation of postcolonial trauma and the embodied experience of reading. As the conditions from which postcolonial literatures have emerged require a break from “proper” ways to represent trauma, postcolonial writers expand and complicate the practice of reading itself. Though postcolonial literature's capacity to represent trauma has received considerable scrutiny in recent years, Postcolonial Parabola is innovative in its consideration of the postcolonial text as a literary object. Working within a phenomenological framework that ties together disparate postcolonial periods, Jay Rajiva explores how narrative structure shapes the experience of reading the postcolonial literatures of South Africa, India, and Sri Lanka. He argues that these texts enmesh the reader in an asymptotic tactility: though readers might approach the disclosure of trauma, they cannot arrive at it. Awareness of the asymptotic nature of reading such works is crucial to a meaningful, ethical engagement with literary representations of postcolonial trauma.