Narrating History, Home, and Dyaspora

Maia L. Butler is assistant professor of African American literature at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where she is also affiliate faculty in women's and gender studies and Africana studies. She is a literary geographer researching and teaching in African American/diasporic, Anglophone postcolonial, and American (broadly conceived) studies, with an emphasis on Black women's literature and feminist theories. Joanna Davis-McElligatt is assistant professor of Black literary and cultural studies in the Department of English at the University of North Texas, where she is affiliate faculty in women's and gender studies. She is coeditor of Narratives of Marginalized Identities in Higher Education: Inside and Outside the Academy. Megan Feifer is assistant professor of English at Medaille College in New York. Her research and teaching addresses Afro-Caribbean diasporas in the US, multiethnic literatures, postcolonial literature and theory, and feminist theories.

This interdisciplinary collection of readable essays by seasoned and junior scholars examines Danticat's entire corpus from fresh perspectives. . . . Recommend.--A. J. Guilliame, Jr. "CHOICE" Narrating History, Home, and Dyaspora is a thought-provoking collection of cutting-edge research articles on Danticat's works by both emerging and established scholars. Alongside recent publications, . . . it ushers in a new stage of scholarship on Danticat.-- "Contemporary Women's Writing" Narrating History, Home, and Dyaspora accomplishes a sustained interrogation of Danticat's canon--including her most recent works--in ways that lay the critical foundation not only for a reappraisal of the author's writing, but also for her place within the larger discursive nexus of African diaspora writing or immigrant literature. Such a work is long overdue, and it makes a case for itself as the most exhaustive treatment of Danticat's expanding literary output.--Maxine Lavon Montgomery, editor of Conversations with Edwidge Danticat Narrating History, Home, and Dyaspora is an in-depth interdisciplinary collection of essays that engages the corpus of Edwidge Danticat in all its dimensions: novelist, short fiction writer, memoirist, essayist, activist, and public intellectual. The book also brings these different aspects of her work together by bringing to light the alternate histories and historiographies this extraordinary storyteller maps out in her work.--Carine M. Mardorossian, author of Reclaiming Difference: Caribbean Women Rewrite Postcolonialism