...Kyrah Malika Daniels Abstract Few conversations with the renowned Haitian novelist Edwidge Danticat have delved into the subject of religion in Haiti and the representations of Vodou in her fiction and nonfiction writing. This interview with Danticat explores her religious upbringing, Vodou...

... routes at your disposal. Something factual never changes, but with fiction the means you have of illustrating your "truth" are endless. MER I o I AN s : What has allowed you to write so vividly both about the pain of passage and of Haiti's turbulent history? EDWIDGE DANTICAT: I have tried to write both...

... Edwidge Danticat's Breath,Eyes,Memory,published four years later, revisits many of the same themes-adolescent alienation, migration, traumatic uprooting from a childhood in the Caribbean (for Kincaid's Lucy, in Antigua; for Danticat's Sophie, in Haiti), and the challenges of establishing new relations...

... revealing about the women of Hispaniola? Edwidge Danticat (ED): I've always been lucky in that my family has been really supportive in the most important sense. In that if you need things materially, there was always someone to help, even if they didn't have too much themselves. My soul was also fed...

... to present Haitian American writer Edwidge Danticat's Breath,Eyes,Memory' (1994) as an integral agent of contemporary American identity, not only as immigrant exceptionalism within the United States. As Andrew Warnes has recently shown in HungerOvercomec,ulinary practices have not only been overlooked...

... about it” or “we should chat” (pers. comm., August 29, 2021), and, apropos of that invitation, we open the conversation with “Vodou, the Arts, and (Re)Presenting the Divine: A Conversation with Edwidge Danticat,” an especially timely and insightful interview that Kyrah Malika Daniels conducted...

... to the unrest in Haiti as well as the discord between Haiti and the Dominican Republic in a hopeful and constructive way. Ginetta Candelario coordinated a roundtable with participants Edwidge Danticat, Loida Maritza Perez, Nelly Rosario, and myself. I am grateful to Meridiansand to these three women...

... in which marriage functions as a racializing institution in late nineteenth-century U.S. national and imperial cultures of women's reform. EDWIDGE DANTICAT is a Haitian writer and the author of two novels entitled Breath,Eyes,Memoryand TheFarmingofBonesand a collection of short stories entitled Krik?Krak...

... interview with Judith Ortiz Cofer, Jana Evans-Braziel's examination of writings by Edwidge Danticat and Jamaica Kincaid, as well as Suzanne Kamata's short story, "The Beautiful One Has Come"-each contributes to coming-of-age perspectives. Evans-Braziel's essay poignantly reveals the difficulties catalogued...

... University Press . Daley Lashon . 2021 . “ Coming of (R) Age: A New Genre for Contemporary Narratives about Black Girlhood .” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 46 , no. 4 : 1035 – 56 . Danticat Edwidge , and Trouillot Evelyne . 2005 . “ Evelyne Trouillot...

..., while France Winddance Twine builds on arguments developed by legal scholars in the United States to inform her sociological research on transracial mothering. Likewise, the poems by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge and Darlene Pagan explore ambiguity, fragmentation, and affinity. And the novelist Edwidge Danticat...

... oreaboutanxietiesurroundin9endetrhantheydo aboutherbodyofwork. "Few twentieth Haitian writers have inspired as much adulation, analysis, and discussion as Marie Vieux-Chauvet." -Edwidge Danticat "She is considered one of the three most important novelists of the country." -Erma Saint-Gregoire The Haitian imaginary is replete with larger...

..., Claude McKay, and Samuel Selvon, as well as newer writers, such as Dorothea Smartt and Edwidge Danticat, have described the migrant experience's beautiful-ugly complexities. Literary and cultural studies scholars have especially been attuned to the textual and musical representations of these migratory...

... such as Edwidge Danticat's depiction of the Haitian genocide in TheFarmin.9ofBones (Danticat 1999),or Caryl Philips's intimate portrait of the institution of slavery in Cambrid.9(ePhilips 1993),or in retellings of the Middle Passage by such writers as Charles Johnson, M. NourbeSe Philip, Fred D'Aguiar...

..., the massacre has received detailed attention with texts such as Edwidge Danticat's TheFarmingof Bones(1999) and historical studies such as Foundationsof Despotism:Peasantst,heTrujilloRegime,andModernityin Dominican History(2003) by Richard Lee Turits. But these serve to address (or rather redress) an already...

..., Meridians:feminismra, cet,ransnationalism15, no. 2 (2017): 491-506. Copyright© 2017 Smith College. doi: 10.2979/meridians.15.2.10 491 along with the eight other books she's published in the ensuing years, deserve recognition as important touchstones for contemporary authors, like Edwidge Danticat, Chimamanda Ngozi...