Danticat, Edwidge
About Edwidge Danticat
Biography (Encyclopædia Britannica)
Reviews
Gutterman, Annabel. “Finding a Place to Call Home.” TIME Magazine, vol. 194, no. 8-9, 2019
Selwyn, Laurie. “Everything Inside.” Library Journal, vol. 144, no. 11, 2019
Nwangwa, Shirley. “Mosaic of Memory.” Women's Review of Books, vol. 36, no. 4, 2019
Grabowski, William. “The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story.” Library Journal, vol. 142, no. 10, 2017
Page, Lisa. “Edwidge Danticat Illuminates Haiti.” Virginia Quarterly Review, vol. 89, no. 4, 2013
Interviews
Gleibermann, Erik. “The Story Will Be There When You Need It: A Conversation with Edwidge Danticat.” World Literature Today, vol. 43, no. 1, 2019
Lewis-Brown, Alscess. "'Bearing Witness": An Interview with Edwidge Danticat." Caribbean Writer, vol. 28, 2014
Schwabe, Liesl. "Exploring from Within." Publishers Weekly, vol. 260, no. 23, 2013
Pulitano, Elvira. " An Immigrant Artist at Work: A Conversation with Edwidge Danticat." Small Axe, vol. 15, no. 3, 2011
Williams, Wilda. "Q&A Edwidge Danticat." Library Journal, vol. 135, no. 20, 2010
Adisa, Opal Palmer." Up Close and Personal: Edwidge Danticat on Haitian Identity and the Writer's Life." African American Review, vol. 43, no. 2-3, 2009
Collins, Michael S. "An Interview with Edwidge Danticat." Callaloo, vol. 30, no. 2, 2007
Mirabal, Nancy Raquel. "Dyasporic Appetites and Longings: An Interview with Edwidge Danticat." Callaloo, vol. 30, no. 1, 2007
Alexandre, Sandy, and Ravi Y. Howard. "An Interview with Edwidge Danticat." Journal of Caribbean Literatures, vol. 4, no. 3, 2007
Smith, Katharine Capshaw. "Splintered Families, Enduring Connections: An Interview with Edwidge Danticat." Children's Literature Association Quarterly, vol. 30, no. 2, 2005
Layne, Prudence, and Lester Coran. "Haiti: History, Voice, Empowerment - An Interview with Edwidge Danticat." Sargasso, vol. 2, 2004
Lyons, Bonnie. "An Interview with Edwidge Danticat." Contemporary Literature, vol. 44, no. 2, 2003
Criticism
Lascelles, Amber. “Locating Black Feminist Resistance through Diaspora and Post-Diaspora in Edwidge Danticat’s and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Short Stories.” African and Black Diaspora, vol. 13, no. 2, 2020
Wilson, Betty. “Literature and Activism, Literature as Activism: Case Studies from Caribbean Women's Writing in French: Marie Chauvet, Edwidge Danticat, Yanick Lahens, Gisèle Pineau.” Caribbean Quarterly, vol. 66, no. 3, 2020
Glover, Kaiama L. “Must the Subaltern Speak: Edwidge Danticat, Feminism, and the Right to Silence.” The Scholar and Feminist Online, vol. 16, no. 1, 2019
Gervasio, Nicole. “The Memory of Words: Historical Recursions and Ideological Determinants in the Present and The Farming of Bones.” English Language Notes, vol. 57, no. 2, 2019
Clitandre, Nadège T. Edwidge Danticat: The Haitian Diasporic Imaginary, 2018
Rickel, Jennifer. “The Refugee and the Reader in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea and Edwidge Danticat’s The Dew Breaker.” Lit, vol. 29, no. 2, 2018
Lo, Aline. “Locating the Refugee’s Place in Edwidge Danticat’s Brother, I’m Dying.” Lit, vol. 29, no. 1, 2018
Rohrleitner, Marion Christina. “’Create Dangerously’: Immigration as Radical Hope in Edwidge Danticat’s Fiction and Creative Nonfiction.” The Immigrant Experience, Jayasuriya (ed.), 2018
Jean-Charles, Régine Michelle. “Of Memories and Men: The Ethics of Life Writing in Edwidge Danticat's Brother, I'm Dying and Jamaica Kincaid's My Brother.” Writings on Caribbean History, Literature, Art and Culture: One Love, François (ed.), 2018
Raab, Josef. “Liberation and Lingering Trauma: U.S. Present and Haitian Past in Edwidge Danticat’s The Dew Breaker.” Politics and Cultures of Liberation: Media, Memory, and Projections of Democracy, Bak et al. (eds.), 2018
Fürst, Saskia. “Palimpsests of Ancestral Memories: Black Women’s Collective Identity Development in Short Stories by Edwidge Danticat and Dionne Brand.” English Academy Review, vol. 34, no. 2, 2017
Montgomery, Maxine L. “A Lasiren Song for the Wonn: Edwidge Danticat's Claire of the Sea Light and the Legend of Mami Wata.” CLA Journal, vol. 59, no. 4, 2016
Jones, Alwin. "The Novel Witness(es): Re-Membering after Trauma in Adichie's Ghosts, Cliff's No Telephone, and Danticat's Farming of Bones." Between Worlds: An Anthology of Contemporary Fiction and Criticism, Poe and Wattley (eds.), 2012
Works
Autobiography/Life Writing
The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story (2017)
Brother, I’m Dying (2009)
After the Dance: A Walk Through Carnival in Jacmel, Haiti (2002)
Novels
Claire of the Sea Light (2013)
The Dew Breaker (2004)
The Farming of Bones (1998)
Krik? Krak! (1996)
Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994)
Children’s and Young Adult’s Books
My Mommy Medicine (2019)
Mama’s Nightingale (2015)
Untwine (2015)
The Last Mapou (2013)
Eight Days: A Story of Haiti (2010)
Anacaona: Golden Flower - Haiti, 1490 (2005)
Behind the Mountains (2002)
Short Story Collections
Everything Inside: Stories (2020)
Ed. Haiti Noir 2 : The Classics (2014)
Ed. Haiti Noir (2011)
Essays/Articles/Non-Fiction/Short Stories
“So Brutal a Death.” The New Yorker, 15 Jun. 2020
“The Ripple Effects of the Coronavirus on Immigrant Communities.” The New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2020
“Demonstrators in Haiti Are Fighting for an Uncertain Future.” The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2019
“A Voice from Heaven.” On Being, 6 May 2017
“Without Her.” The New York Times, 23 Apr. 2015
“Edwidge Danticat: The Price of Sugar.” Creative Time Reports, 5 May 2014
Danticat, Edwidge, Opal Palmer Adisa and Erna Brodber. "Ways of Reading Sexual Shame, Violence, and Pain." Sexual Feelings: Reading Anglophone Caribbean Women’s Writing Through Affect, Valovirta (ed.), 2014
Danticat, Edwidge, Opal Palmer Adisa, Erna Brodber and Shani Mootoo. "Communities That Heal - Reading Sexual Healing." Sexual Feelings: Reading Anglophone Caribbean Women’s Writing Through Affect, Valovirta (ed.), 2014
“Look at Me: Photographs from Africa Past and Present.” Harpers Magazine, 2013
“Detention Is No Holiday.” The New York Times, 27 Mar. 2012
Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work (2011)
As Editor: The Butterfly's Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora [sic] in the United States (2011)
Audio and Audiovisual Material
“The Sunday Read – The Daily Podcast.” The New York Times, 12 Jul. 2020
National Book Festival Presents Edwidge Danticat. YouTube, 12 Nov. 2019
Edwidge Danticat reads from "Without Inspection" and from The Art of Death, introduced by Aja Monet. YouTube, 29 Mar. 2019