Breath, Eyes, Memory | Literary Precedents
Often, as is the case in the most commonly cited German prototypes of the form, a Bildungsroman tracks the artistic development of a creative individual. Goethe's Wilhelm Meister and Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man are two examples of this iteration of the form. Breath, Eyes, Memory, however, does not claim to narrate the events of an extraordinary creative genius. Rather, Danticat seems interested in the struggles with maturation endured by an ordinary girl; Sophie is not an artist but a secretary. In this way Danticat aligns herself with...
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