Dr. Jerry Ward on Edwidge Danticat
[By Jerry W. Ward, Jr] It is hard to classify Edwidge Danticat, to map where her imagination is located between the future and the past. She writes well. This adverbial compliment identifies her as a successful rebel. She satisfies the demands of commerce and undermines those demands in her critiques of banality. Is she an American writer? Yes. She writes in and about the Americas. […]