«The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edwidge Danticat is a true first. It is a collection of luminous essays written by first-rate international writers and a welcome addition to the existing scholarship on a prolific Haitian American author known for her skill at handling numerous genres.»

English Studies

«Edwidge Danticat continues to be a shining light in contemporary literature, her brilliance radiating through and beyond Haitian, Caribbean, and American writing. This exciting new volume will be an essential guide for scholars, students, and general readers. Chapters range through themes as diverse as death, disaster, food, girlhood, creolization, and memory, and together are as rich and diverse as Danticat's own ever-evolving body of work.»

Martin Munro, Eminent Scholar and Winthrop-King Professor of French and Francophone Studies, Florida

«The Handbook to Edwidge Danticat is an extraordinarily rich and varied exploration of the kaleidoscopic arc of Danticat's writings. Its unrivaled comparative and interdisciplinary scope, with pivotal contributions from a broad range of her most insightful and committed readers, as well as the author herself, marks a definitive and essential contribution to our understanding of Edwidge Danticat's lyrical exploration of Haitian cultural and diasporic experience.»

Professor Nick Nesbitt, Princeton University, USA

«A timely compilation of essays; a beloved talented writer! This amazing combination enriches our libraries but above all our joy in reading and teaching the work of our lovely Edwidge Danticat. Described by many as a Caribbean griot because of her love for stories and their histories, and her ability to tell and write them, the literary world of this major exponent of Caribbean and Black Women's writing in international contexts is brought into our myriad spaces of political and intellectual consciousness.»

Carole Boyce-Davies, Frank H.T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters and Professor of Africana Studies

«This edited collection is a comprehensive analysis of Danticat’s writing from multi-themes, multi-genres, and multi-dimensions. Through exploring insightful intertexts and situating her work carefully in context, this collection emphasizes Danticat’s significant contribution to Black literature and represents new directions in the study of her works.»

Contemporary Women's Writing

«The book highlights various points of entry into Danticat’s impressive oeuvre and would be a fantastic component of a course on the author. It should definitely be owned by every academic library.»

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