Edwidge Danticat: Postcolonial Feminism
It is not necessarily vital, but it is helpful, to understand the concept of Post-colonialism to appreciate more fully the literature of Edwidge Danticat. Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti in 1969, Edwidge was raised by her grandmother until her parents found work in the U.S. From the age of four she was raised in a Haitian-populated section of Brooklyn, New York. Among her many publications, she has produced a collection of short stories entitled Krik? Krak! , and the novels Breath, Eyes, Memory , The Farming of the Bones , and The Dew Breaker . She has also published numerous essays and literature for young adults ( 2 ). Post-Colonialism is a term that reaches across several disciplines, from anthropology, to history, to literary theory. Throughout, post-colonialist theorists concern themselves with the condition and aftermath of postcolonialism--and imperialism: a period in history in which powerful nations sought to subdue, enslave, and exploit the aboriginal people of ...