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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"danticat"”.
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L’emploi du vernaculaire haïtien dans la traduction d’une sélection de textes tirés de The Butterfly’s Way sous la direction d’Edwidge Danticat
The Butterfly’s Way, publié en 2001, relate, à travers 33 histoires brèves, l’expérience de la diaspora haïtienne, particulièrement en Amérique du Nord, qui, prise entre deux cultures, cherche à affirmer son identité. Cette thèse est une réflexion sur le processus de traduction française/créole …
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Negotiating Identity in the Transnational Imaginary of Julia Alvarez's and Edwidge Danticat's Literature
… group over another. In the literature of Edwidge Danticat and Julia Alvarez, however, a fictional space is created that rewrites national histories and problematizes rooted identities through their novels' characterization. This fictional space is a transnational paradigm that—in the vocabulary of …
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The Adolescent Grotesque: Transgressing Boundaries of Female Sexuality in Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory and Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John
… by internal and external bodily changes. Edwidge Danticat and Jamaica Kincaid employ the first-person narrative style in their respective debut novels, <em>Breath, Eyes, Memory </em>and <em>Annie John</em>, to amplify the female adolescent voice and provide unmitigated access to the female …
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Towards a trans-Caribbean poetics: A new aesthetic of power and resistance
… Julia Alvarez (The Dominican Republic), Edwidge Danticat (Haiti) and Junot Díaz (The Dominican Republic) share thematic and biographical similarities and reveal an emerging aesthetic with definite textual and thematic traits that I identify as Trans-Caribbean, a poetics with four main …
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Windows on the World: The Aesthetics of Difference in Neoliberal New York
… J.P. Sniadecki; and writers Teju Cole, Edwidge Danticat, and Joseph O’Neill.</p>
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Reaching for Opacity: Contemporary Afrodiasporic Literature
… Offering readings of writers such as Edwidge Danticat, Fred Moten, M. NourbeSe Philip, Dionne Brand, and Claudia Rankine, this dissertation amplifies the call for a heightened awareness of the way opacity is woven into both our quotidian encounters and collective political life in a manner we …
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The Kaleidoscopic Unsaid: Voice, Memory, and Body of the Afro-Americas
… and in The Farming of Bones (1996) by Edwidge Danticat. Finally, with the films Pelo malo (2013) by Mariana Rondón and La playa D.C. (2012) by Juan Andrés Arango Garcia I show how the Black male body and hair fluid sites of resistance. Together these three chapters show how the subjects in …
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Cartographic Memories and Geographies of Pain: Bodily Representations in Caribbean Women's Art
… and experiences. Dionne Brand, Edwidge Danticat, Marion Hall, Joan Riley and Myriam Warner-Vieyra provide us with an opportunity to trace the processes through which Caribbean women artists write their own bodies and how those bodies can be used to explore larger issues around identity, …
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Recalling trauma: the legacy of slavery and colonialism in contemporary black women’s fiction
… Toni Morrison, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Edwidge Danticat, Tsitsi Dangarembga and Scholastique Mukasonga published between 2004 and 2014. The authors I consider represent literary historians engaging with traumatic pasts in order to rewrite and (re)present black women in a global present. From a …