Essays on Edwidge Danticat

Edwidge Danticat is a popular Haitian-American writer who has succeeded in gaining acclamations from different sections of the society. Danticat writes extensively on issues that affect women, sexuality and immigrants. Danticat has learnt a lot from her own experiences and is gifted with deep understanding of literature. Danticat has won several awards for her fierce and issues based writing. This paper proposes a discussion on Edwidge Danticat and further analyses her literary works. Danticat was born in Haiti on 19th January, 1969. Her parents migrated into United States without her when she was just nine years old. Danticat and ...

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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. ...

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 ...