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Book Review: ‘The Farming of Bones’ by Edwidge Danticat

The canons of literature around the globe are bestrewn with great works about wars. A curious thing about war literature is that there is almost always a clear heroic, moral victor who triumphs against a ‘worthy’ adversary – one who is able to fight back and is in no way victimized. Unlike such ‘glorious’ narratives, there are books which deal with less black and white forms of violence. Books such as ‘The Farming of Bones’ by Edwidge Danticat dive headlong into violent narratives where there really is no glory in death. ...

Nationalism, Religion and Gender are prevalent in the texts “The Good Lord Bird” and “The Farming of Bones.” The two texts stem out as informative and engaging pieces of writing. Both books are written from a comical stance, and embrace beauty in their calling. They are captivating in the way they elicit suspense and evoke varied emotions among their audience. Unflinchingly deemed as irreverent, they refuse to draw clean lines between the good personnel and the bad, between the abolitionists and the pro-slavery folks. The authors have touched on several themes, whereby religion, nationalism, religion, and gender emerging as the ...

Pledges are common in many professions. They are solemn declarations to adhere to specific guidelines, terms of services and to some extent allegiance to specific people in authority or God. The nursing profession has had its share of the same. The Nightingale Pledge is the pledge use by nurse upon graduation. It is named after Florence Nightingale in honor of her contribution in the nursing profession. She is credited as the founder of modern nursing and also the actual initial idea of pledging. The pledge was created in 1893 by modifying the Hippocratic Oath by Lystra Gretter and a the ...

The book “The Farming of bones” by Edwidge Danticat is about two lovers Amabelle Desir and Sebastian Onius. The story is based on true facts from a true account that existed long time ago. Edwidge Danticat researched all the incidents and used panopticon ideas to put them clear from a given perspective. Panopticon is defined as a building especially in prison or library which enables one person overlook all places from one perspective. Panoption idea may be viewed the ideas that 6 million people were captured in one single photograph. This reflected the war that claimed 6 million people just in a small ...

The Parsley Massacre of 1937 has been dramatized in Edwidge Danticat’s third book, “The Farming of Bones.” Danticat’s short story “Nineteen Thirty-Seven” was also about this event and was included in her National Book Award finalist collection Krik? Krak! (1995). Danticat had actually visited Massacre River in 1995, the site of the massacre, which separates Haiti from the Dominican Republic. According to Danticat herself, writing about the massacre is an act of remembering it as an important part of the history of Haiti and the world. As in the novel's acknowledgements, Danticat claims that “The Farming of ...