Edwidge Danticat

Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat is one of the most recognized writers today. Krak and Brother, I'm Dying have earned her a MacArthur "genius" grant and National Book Award nominations. Her debut novel, Breath, Eyes, Memory, was an Oprah Book Club selection, and works such as Krik?

Clitandre offers a comprehensive analysis of Danticat's exploration of the dialogic relationship between nation and diaspora. Yet despite international acclaim and the relevance of her writings to postcolonial, feminist, Caribbean, African diaspora, Haitian, literary, and global studies, Danticat's work has not been the subject of a full-length interpretive literary analysis until now.In Edwidge Danticat: The Haitian Diasporic Imaginary, Nad ge T. Clitandre argues that Danticat--moving between novels, short stories, and essays--articulates a diasporic