I have not written in a while because I have been in Haiti. When I returned last week, I wrote a post for the
Huffington Post about my experience there and thoughts on the situation. The article as published last Wednesday:
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The Farming of Bones The Dew Breaker Edwidge Danticat…continued Of Danticat’s books, The Dew Breaker is the most interesting to me in terms of narrative technique. Each tale appears to stand alone but a few minor characters reappear as main characters in succedding stories unifying the texts into a whole story. Essentials: Ka’s father is hiding a [...]
Edwidge Danticat: Haitian Voice in Literature The good thing about reading is that it shakes off any inferiority complex vis-à-vis your own writing. Great writers are also great readers. Good books are like elders guiding you. Then, when you are ready, when it is your turn, you step up to stir [...] K'Naan – Troubadour K’Naan is a Somali-Canadian rapper who has been blowing me away lately. Although his music is strictly about Somalia, some of the lyrics would apply to Haiti and the short, brutish life many live there. He is not afraid of a few solecisms in his flow as long as it flows. Although it’s [...] |
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