Edwidge Danticat: a reader's guide

Section one: Contexts. Inside out: a brief biography of Edwidge Danticat / Martin Munro; Danticat and her Haitian precursors / J. Michael Dash; Danticat and Caribbean women writers / Carine Mardorossian; Danticat and the African American women's literary tradition / Régine Michelle Jean-Charles

Section two: Texts & analyses. Diasporic politics: Danticat's short works / Nick Nesbitt; Writing young: Danticat's young adult fiction / Kiera Vaclavik; Traveling, writing: Danticat's After the dance / Charles Forsdick; Marassa with a difference: Danticat's Breath, eyes, memory / Mireille Rosello; Violence, nation, and memory in Danticat's The farming of bones / Myriam J.A. Chancy; Concealment, displacement, and disconnection: Danticat's The dew breaker / Mary Gallagher

Section three: Danticat & her peers. Finally Edwidge arrived / Maryse Condé; The right side of history / Évelyne Trouillot; Balancing the jar / Madison Smartt Bell; To the text / Lyonel Trouillot

Section four: Interview & bibliography. A family story: Danticat talks about her newest

and most personal

work / Renee H. Shea; Edwidge Danticat: a selected bibliography / Nadève Ménard.