Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat

'Reframing Haitian Literature Transnationally: Identifying New and Revised Tropes of Haitian Identity in Edwidge Danticat's 'Breath, Eyes, Memory.'' Journal of Haitian Studies 9.2 (2003): 90-110.

'M/othering the Nation: Women's Bodies as Nationalist Trope in Edwidge Danticat's 'Breath, Eyes, Memory.'' African American Review 44.3 (2011): 373-390.Ĭlitandre, Nadége. 'Analyzing the Problematic Mother-Daughter Relationship in Edwidge Danticat's 'Breath, Eyes, Memory.'' Journal of Caribbean Literatures 7.1 (2011): 77-90.Īlexander, Simone A. ''Silences Too Horrific to Disturb': Writing Sexual Histories in Edwidge Danticat's 'Breath, Eyes, Memory.'' Research in African Literatures 35.2 (2004): 75-90. New York: Vintage Books, 1994.įrancis, Donette A. Completed on August 09, 2018,ĭanticat, Edwidge. She lives in Miami with her husband and daughters.Kristen Osborne-Bartucca, author of ClassicNote. She is also the editor of The Butterfly's Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States and The Beacon Best of 2000: Great Writing by Men and Women of All Colors and Cultures.ĭanticat earned a degree in French Literature from Barnard College, where she won the 1995 Woman of Achievement Award, and later an MFA from Brown University. She is the author of several books, including Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah Book Club selection Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist and The Farming of Bones, an American Book Award winner. Edwidge Danticat was born in Haiti and moved to the United States when she was twelve.

She lives in Miami with her husband and daughters. Danticat earned a degree in French Literature from Barnard College, where she won the 1995 Woman of Achievement Award, and later an MFA from Brown University. She is also the editor of The Butterfly's Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States and The Beacon Best of 2000: Great Writing by Men and Women of All Colors and Cultures.

Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat