20062 pages
Biography
JANUARY 19, 1969 Edwidge Danticat was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Her parents emigrated to the United States when she was only two years old, leaving her and a younger brother in the custody of their aunt and uncle....
20101 page
Biography
American (born Haiti), b. 1969. Genres: Novels, Novellas/Short stories, Plays/Screenplays. Career: Clinica Estetico, production and research assistant, 1993-94; Novelist, short story writer, 1994-; New York University,...
200919 pages
Critical essay, Work...
EDWIDGE DANTICAT 2007 Brother, I'm Dying, published in 2007, is Edwidge Danticat's nonfiction family story that centers around her father, her uncle, and the events that linked them in the last months of their lives....
199715 pages
Character overview, ...
Edwidge Danticat 1993 First published in the October, 1993, issue of Short Fiction by Women under the title “From the Ocean Floor,” “Children of the Sea” was also included in Edwidge Danticat’s 1995 short story...
200725 pages
Character overview, ...
Edwidge Danticat1995 "Caroline's Wedding," by Edwidge Danticat, is the last story in the collection Krik? Krak!, which was published in 1995. The story features the narrator and protagonist, Gracina (Grace) Azile, who,...
200922 pages
Character overview, ...
EDWIDGE DANTICAT 2004 The Dew Breaker (2004) is a novel by Edwidge Danticat, an American writer who was born in Haiti. Haiti is a small, impoverished country that occupies the western third of the island of Hispaniola;...
20063 pages
Topic overview
The work of Caribbean-American writers generally reflects a sense of rootedness in the American landscape while simultaneously expressing a connection to and knowledge of their Caribbean home cultures, be it Haiti, the...
20062 pages
Topic overview
Created out of a revolutionary war that drove the French out of colonial St. Domingue in 1804, Haitian literature has been inspired as much by the need to affirm the uniqueness of the Haitian nation as by its redemptive...
201412 pages
Topic overview
Felix Eme Unaeze and Richard E. Perrin Haitian Americans are immigrants or descendants of immigrants from Haiti (officially the Republic of Haiti), which occupies the western third of the island of Hispaniola. The...
20174 pages
Excerpt, Critical es...
Mayra Montero Originally published in Spanish in 1991 as “Corinne, muchacha amable,” the gothic short story “Corinne, Amiable Girl” by Cuban-Puerto Rican author Mayra Montero (1952–) uses Haitian Vodou to reveal themes...
20064 pages
Topic overview
In her book "The Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide, Samantha Power recounts the story of Raphael Lemkin, a Polish Jew, who was determined to find a word that would capture the barbarity of the Nazi...
20173 pages
Critical essay, Work...
Isabel Allende Published in Spain in 1982, The House of the Spirits (La casa de los espiritus) by Isabel Allende (1942–) is a magical realist novel translated from Spanish into English in 1985 that chronicles the saga...
20066 pages
Topic overview
One of the greatest murderers of the twentieth century, or any century, Josef Stalin, is reported to have said, "One death is a tragedy. One million deaths is a statistic." Whether or not Stalin actually spoke these...
Authors:Pierre Clitandre and Renee C. BranumFrom:Supernatural Literature
(Vol. 1: The Dead. )
20174 pages
Excerpt, Critical es...
Pierre Clitandre Originally published in 1980 and appearing for the first time in English in 1987, Cathedral of the August Heat by Haitian poet Pierre Clitandre (1954–) is an urban tale about a utopian revolution by...
200918 pages
Character overview, ...
JULIA ALVAREZ 1996 "Liberty" is a story by Julia Alvarez, an American writer of Dominican origin. It is set during Alvarez's childhood in the Dominican Republic in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The story was first...
20069 pages
Topic overview
In order to make sense out of a senseless experience, people of African descent who were forcibly transported from the continent to the New World relied very heavily on their memory of various homelands, of their...
200714 pages
Poem explanation, Bi...
SONIA SANCHEZ 1987 Sonia Sanchez's poem "An Anthem" first appeared in 1987's Under a Soprano Sky and later was included in Shake Loose My Skin (1999), a collection of previously published and new poems. "An Anthem" is...
200015 pages
Character overview, ...
Jamaica Kincaid 1978 First published in the June 26, 1978, issue of The New Yorker, “Girl” was the first of what would become more than a dozen short stories Jamaica Kincaid published in that magazine. Five years...
199717 pages
Character overview, ...
Nadine Gordimer 1952 Nadine Gordimer was born in Springs, South Africa, a gold mining town near Johannesburg, in 1923. Her parents were Jewish emigrants from London. She began writing at age nine when a heart condition...
201116 pages
Poem explanation, Cr...
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER 1992 Judith Ortiz Cofer first published “The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica” in Americas Review in 1992. The poem also appears in a 1993 collection of poems, short stories, and personal essays titled The...
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JANUARY 19, 1969 Edwidge Danticat was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Her parents emigrated to the United States when she was only two years old, leaving her and a younger brother in the custody of their aunt and uncle....
The work of Caribbean-American writers generally reflects a sense of rootedness in the American landscape while simultaneously expressing a connection to and knowledge of their Caribbean home cultures, be it Haiti, the...