” We will perhaps be the ones to teach others a new poetic and, leaving behind the poetics of not-knowing, will initiate others into a new chapter in the history of mankind” (Edouard Glissant, Caribbean Discourse: Selected Essays, 1989:169) Edouard Glissant Important works La Lézarde. (1958) Nouvelle édition, Paris: Gallimard, 1997; Port-au-Prince: Presses Nationales d’Haïti, [...]
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Haiti-born writer Edwidge Danticat has won the prestigious MacArthur Foundation fellowship, which comes with $500,000. BY JACQUELINE CHARLES jcharles@MiamiHerald.com Miami writer Edwidge Danticat was holding her 9-month-old daughter, Leila, while trying to read the computer screen when the phone rang. “Are you sitting down?” the caller asked. “Yes. I am holding my baby,” she said. [...]
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