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Born in Haiti in 1969, Danticat, who emigrated to the United States at age twelve, has become one of the most important new literary voices in America, taking up immigrant identity, national identity, women in Haitian and American society, cultural integration and its consequences, poverty, totalitarianism, and terror. This course will cover a representative selection of her works:
- Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994) Novel
- Krik? Krak! (1996) Stories
- Brother, I’m Dying (2007) Memoir/Social Criticism
- The Dew Breaker (2004) Novel in Stories
- Claire of the Sea Light (2013) Novel
- Recommended, but not required: The Farming of Bones (1998), a novel, and Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work (2010), an essay collection.
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