Caroline’s Wedding | Thomson Gale
In the following essay, the critic gives an overview of Edwidge Danticat’s work.
Thomson Gale
In the following essay, the critic gives an overview of Edwidge Danticat’s work.
Fiction writer Edwidge Danticat conjures the history of her native Haiti in award-winning short stories and novels. She is equally at home describing the immigrant experience—what she calls ‘‘dyaspora’’—and the reality of life in Haiti today. Danticat’s fiction ‘‘has been devoted to an unflinching examination of her native culture, both on its own terms and in terms of its intersections with American culture,’’ wrote an essayist in...
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