Edwidge Danticat The Haitian Diasporic Imaginary / Nadege T. Clitandre.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clitandre, Nadège T., 1977- author.

Series:

New World studies.

New World studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Danticat, Edwidge, 1969---Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2018.

Summary:

"This work analyzes 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 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Recall: the echo effect of historical silences

Echo chamber in create dangerously

Haitian echoes: tradition and nation in breath, eyes, memory

The dew breaker as echo-monde

Voices from beyond the (unmarked) grave in the farming of bones

Epilogue: toward a globalectical imagination.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780813941882

0813941881

OCLC:

1057725987