Fiction writer Edwidge Danticat had accomplished the twin literary feats of winning a Pushcart Prize for short fiction and being nominated for the prestigious National Book Award before she reached th...
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In the following essay, based on discussions with Danticat, Pierre-Pierre examines her past in Haiti and her present life as a Haitian-American living in Brooklyn.
It was the kind of dark, cold New...
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In the following favorable review of Krik? Krak!, Eder describes some of Danticat's stories as "pure beguiling transformation."
"Beyond the mountains there are mountains...
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In the following review of Krik? Krak!, Omang observes that "Danticat seems to be overflowing with the strength and insight of generations of Haitian women."
In Haitian-American Edwid...
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In the following essay, Moses provides an overview of Danticat's life and career.
Novelist Edwidge Danticat remembers that when she went to junior high school in Crown Heights, it was hard t...
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In the following review, Hébert applauds Krik? Krak! for its stories about Haitians and their lives in Haiti, but notes that Danticat never fully examines the complicated relationship between H...
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In the following review, Hart commends Danticat for providing "honest and loving portraits of Haitian people, both on the island and in the United States."
More than anything else, th...
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In the following interview, Danticat discusses the stories included in Krik? Krak!
This epigraph sets the stage and tone for the nine stories of the heart by Haitian-born Edwidge Danticat in her re...
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In the following interview, Fichtner and Danticat discuss biographical elements that have influenced Danticat's work, some of her early writing experiences, and her legacy.
It is 9:30 a.m., ...
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In the following interview, Shea and Danticat discuss various aspects of Danticat's work, including mother-daughter relationships and imagery.
[Shea:] Mothers and daughters are a central the...
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In the following essay, Chancy examines the manner in which both Magloire and Danticat demonstrate the extent to which Haitian women have been rendered “invisible in a society itself typified t...
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Edwidge and the Angry inch: It’s reading season, when we try to behave like the secular urban intellectuals the red states think we are after a summer spent devouring nanny lit in sunburned s...
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Should Christopher Hitchens win a National Book Award, you can be sure he won't thank any higher powers.The author, columnist and commentator was nominated for "God Is Not Great," a polemic with a ...
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Edwidge Danticat
Critical Essay by Garry Pierre-Pierre
Thursday, September 20th
