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Narrating History, Home, and Dyaspora: Critical Essays on Edwidge Danticatis comprised of fifteen critical essays exploring a broad range of Edwidge Danticat’s ouevre, including journalism, novels, short fiction, young adult and children’s literature, memoirs, activism, and public intellectual scholarship. This collection brings together an international body of scholars who examine Danticat’s revolutionary work on alternate histories and historiographies, narratives of nation states and national belonging, and conceptions of home and homelands. As a testament to Danticat’s visionary work on the politics and experiences of the Haitian dyaspora, this collection contemplates and evaluates Danticat’s resistance to colonialism and imperialism as performed in her fiction, as a communal undertaking produced out of her own life experiences, and made manifest in her cultural commentary. Through engaged investigations of the experiences of Haitians at home and in dyaspora, the contributors to this collection explore how Haitian peoples endure and survive the trauma of ongoing ecological catastrophe, governmental instability, and financial insecurity. Each chapter addresses in diverse ways the function, space, and place of home; the representation of nationalisms, including post- and transnationalisms; and the tensions inherent in the confluences of past, present, and future in Danticat’s body of work. Contributors consider how Danticat’s writing, anthologizing, and storytelling trace, map, and (re)construct for Haitians radical new futures by offering modes of resistance at the axis of witnessing and testifying to violence, political dissent, and the radical possibility inherent in methods of survival. |
