The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edwidge Danticat

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edwidge Danticat is a comprehensive reference guide to 21st-century scholarship on her work, covering her novels, short stories, essays, life writing, and writing for children and young adults, with chapters written by leading and emerging international scholars. It explores major interdisciplinary scholarly perspectives, Danticats literary sources and influences, historical moments in experiences of slavery and imperialism, the consequence of internal and external migration, and the formation of diasporic communities.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 464 pages
Publication date: 23 February 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Edwidge Danticat is a prolific writer who has made significant contributions to 21st-century literary culture. Her novels, short stories, essays, and writing for children have explored important contemporary themes such as racism, imperialism, anti-immigrant politics, and sexual violence. The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edwidge Danticat is the most up-to-date and in-depth reference guide to 21st-century scholarship on her work. It covers a wide range of Danticat's writing, including her novels, short stories, essays, life writing, and writing for children and young adults. It also includes major interdisciplinary scholarly perspectives, Danticat's literary sources and influences, historical moments in experiences of slavery and imperialism, the consequence of internal and external migration, and the formation of diasporic communities. The book also includes a comprehensive bibliography of Danticat's work and key works of secondary criticism, as well as an interview with the author and essays by Danticat herself.

Weight: 818g
Dimension: 244 x 171 x 28 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781350210653