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Jordana Hart (review date 19 July 1995)

SOURCE: "Danticat's Stories Pulse with Haitian Heartbeat," in The Boston Globe, July 19, 1995, p. 70.

[In the following review, Hart commends Danticat for providing "honest and loving portraits of Haitian people, both on the island and in the United States."]

More than anything else, the storytelling of the young Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat has given the world honest and loving portraits of Haitian people, both on the island and in the United States. She has smashed the numbing stereotypes created by a barrage of media accounts of Haitian poverty, misery and death.

Danticat's debut novel, Breath, Eyes, Memory, garnered international acclaim last year. In her new book, a collection of nine short stories called Krik? Krak!, she draws on her experience growing up in dictatorial Haiti as well as stories of Creole culture and myth.

Danticat, 26, a teller of...

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1. Introduction
2. Principal Works
3. Criticism
   1. Mary Mackay (review date Fall 1994)
   2. Garry Pierre-Pierre (essay date 26 January 1995)
   3. Richard Eder (review date 30 March 1995)
   4. Joanne Omang (review date 14 May 1995)
   5. Paul Moses (essay date 21 May 1995)
   6. Kimberly Hébert (review date June 1995)
   7. Jordana Hart (review date 19 July 1995)
   8. Edwidge Danticat with Renée H. Shea (interview date Summer 1995)
4. Copyright

1. Edwidge Danticat