| Author |
Danticat, Edwidge, 1969- interviewee.
|
| Title |
Conversations with Edwidge Danticat / edited by Maxine Lavon Montgomery. |
| OCLC |
962552498 |
| ISBN |
9781496812551 |
|
1496812557 |
| ISBN/ISSN |
40027281158 |
| Publisher |
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2017] |
| Description |
xxv, 237 pages ; 24 cm. |
| LC Subject heading/s |
Danticat, Edwidge, 1969- -- Interviews.
|
Other
Subject heading/s |
Danticat, Edwidge, 1969- (OCoLC)fst00330110
|
| LC Subject heading/s |
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Interviews.
|
|
Haitian American authors -- Interviews.
|
| Contents |
Introduction -- Chronology -- Edwidge Danticat / Alexander Laurence, 2000 -- Edwidge Danticat / Robert Birnbaum, 2004 -- Splintered families, enduring connections : an interview with Edwidge Danticat / Katharine Capshaw Smith, 2005 -- An interview with Edwidge Danticat / E. Ethelbert Miller, 2007 -- Up close and personal : Edwidge Danticat on Haitian identity and the writer's life / Opal Palmer Adisa, 2009 -- An interview with Edwidge Danticat / Rose Marie Berger, 2010 -- Edwidge Danticat : the Create dangerously interview / Lloyd "Kam" Williams, 2010 -- Edwidge Danticat responds to the "Five questions pour ile en ile" (in Creole, English, and French) / Thomas Spear, 2010 -- Edwidge Danticat : in conversation / Paul Holdengräber, 2010 -- Writing in exile helps authors connect to home / Jennifer Ludden 2010, -- We are all going to die / Nathalie Handal, 2011 -- The nuance of noir : an interview with Edwidge Danticat / Carolyn Gan, 2011 -- Create dangerously : a conversation with Edwidge Danticat / Kimberly Nagy and Lauren McConnell, 2012 -- Edwidge Danticat : the interview / Kreyolicious, 2012 -- Haitian youth illuminated in Claire of the sea light / Rachel Martin, 2013 -- The art of not belonging / Dwyer Murphy, 2013 -- Maneuvering myself around a scene : a conversation with Edwidge Danticat / Brendan Dowling, 2013 -- A conversation with Edwidge Danticat / Kima Jones, 2014 -- The Dominican Republic and Haiti : a shared view from the disapora / Richard André, 2014 -- A conversation with Edwidge Danticat / Josephine "Jo" Reed, 2015 -- Edwidge Danticat tells the story behind Untwine / Kreyolicious, 2015 -- Putting together the fragments : a conversation with Edwidge Danticat / Maxine Lavon Montgomery, 2016. |
| Summary |
"This volume sheds a much-needed light on Edwidge Danticat (b. 1969) and her ability to depict timely issues in sparkling prose that delves deep into the borderlands, an uncharted in-between space located outside fixed geographic, cultural, and ideological bounds. Prevalent throughout many interviews here is Danticat's expressed determination not only to reveal Haitian immigrant experience, but also to make that nuanced culture and its vibrant traditions accessible to a wide audience. These interviews coincide with Edwidge Danticat's evolving artistic vision, her steady book publication, and her expanding roles as fiction writer, essayist, memoirist, documentarian, young adult book author, editor, songwriter, cultural critic, and political commentator. Dating from her appearance on the literary scene at the age of twenty-five, the many interviews that she has granted attest to not only her productivity, but also her accessibility to scholars, teachers, writers, and journalists eager for knowledge about her vision. Included in this volume are interviews that range from 2000, covering the publication of her debut work of fiction, Breath, Eyes, Memory, to a personal interview conducted with the volume editor in 2016. In that conversation, which appears for the first time as part of this collection, Danticat provides insight into little-known aspects of her life, art, and politics. Her candid interviews carry out a careful stripping away of preconceived notions of Danticat, disclosing the private and public life of a first-class writer and intellectual whose countless achievements have assured her an enduring place within contemporary world letters."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
|
