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For the remainder of Fall 2009 I am
honoring
Edwidge
Danticat, a prize winning Haitian-American author
who
has been awarded
a
2009 MacArthur Fellowship.
Danticat's prominence in contemporary literature began with
the success of her
'debut' novel Breath, Eyes, Memory. You can read selections
of
Breath, eyes, memory, on Google Books. [Remember preview
versions limit the number of times a work can be viewed
while blocking printing.] Some of her other novels are
Krik? Krak!,
The Farming of Bones and
The Dew Breaker. Her
works have been translated to Spanish, German, Polish and
French.
A Barnard College
graduate with an MFA from Brown University,
Edwidge Danticat has written many short stories, essays
and magazine articles (cf. the 2005 New Yorker article
Reading Lessons). Her second children's book
Anacaona, Golden Flower, is a fictionalized diary that
chronicles the rise to power and literary accomplishments of Taino queen
Anacaona. The queen ruled Xaragua, the last Taino
kingdom to fall in the Spanish conquest of Hispaniola.
Danticat's most recent work,
Brother I'm Dying, is a memoir
chronicling the visits of death and birth to her 'front door'
in 2004.
The article
Famous Haitians
from The Haiti Support Group website honors the most prominent female Haitian
novelist,
Marie Chauvet.
For a recent English translation of Chauvet's signature work locate a
copy of
Love, anger, madness :
a Haitian trilogy, translated by Rose-Myriam Réjouis and Val Vinokurof, with an
introduction by
Edwidge Danticat. You can learn more about Chauvet by reading
the article
Haitian Women Underground:
Revising Literary Traditions and
Societies by Régine Latorture
in Journal of Haitian Studies Vol. 5-6.
Contact me in person at the Ernest J. Allen Library (EJA) at
Palomar's Escondido Center or the San
Marcos campus Library (LL211B) to discuss service,
collection or instruction issues for EJA and our planned
North Center campus. You can also reach me via
email or by
telephone (Mon & Thur ext 8229; Tues & Wed ext 3695).
Visit my
course blog
to learn about the course I will teach in Spring 2010,
LT110
Library Operational Skills/Technical Services.
last updated 12/2/09
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