Criticism > Contemporary Literary Criticism > Danticat, Edwidge (Vol. 94) - Kimberly Hébert (review date June 1995)

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Kimberly Hébert (review date June 1995)

SOURCE: "A Testament to Survival," in Quarterly Black Review, June, 1995, p. 6.

[In the following review, Hébert applauds Krik? Krak! for its stories about Haitians and their lives in Haiti, but notes that Danticat never fully examines the complicated relationship between Haitian-Americans and America.]

And over the years when you have needed us, you have always cried "Krik?" and we have answered "Krak!" and it has shown us that you have not forgotten us.

Edwidge Danticat's powerful collection of short stories, Krik? Krak! is a complicated, yet connected, chorus of Haitian voices affirming survival. Each one explores how memories of Haiti are passed on from one generation to the next—how Haiti will live on in the children of exiles in the United States, in the children of those who survived.

We know people by their stories.

Born in 1969 during the dictatorial...

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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