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Edwidge Danticat [electronic resource] : the Haitian diasporic imaginary / Nadège T. Clitandre

Author:
Clitandre, Nadège T., 1977-
Published:
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2018.
Physical Description:
xx, 249 pages ; 24 cm.
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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.
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"--
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ISBN:
9780813941868 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
9780813941875 (paper ; acid-free paper)
9780813941882 (ebook)
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-235) and index.
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