Tag Archives: Danticat

The Dew Breaker Murder Board

by Ryleigh Simmons Link to the murder board if you want to see it bigger. Before reading my response, I would like to clarify that when I refer to Ka’s father during the time he was a Macoute, I will refer to him as either the fat man or the guard. Similarly, when I amContinue reading “The Dew Breaker Murder Board”

A Visual Of Character Relations in Danticat’s ‘The Dew Breaker’

For my project, I decided to undergo the creation of a chart to visualize the connections between every major character of The Dew Breaker. To do this, I first went through every chapter and made a list of every character, loosely grouped by chapter, which looked something like this: Obviously, not all of these charactersContinue reading “A Visual Of Character Relations in Danticat’s ‘The Dew Breaker’”

Ecocriticism, global literature, and the postcolonial landscape.

Annotated Bibliography Bennett, Michael. “Anti-Pastoralism, Frederick Douglass, and the Nature of Slavery,” Beyond Nature Writing: expanding the boundaries of ecocriticism, edited by Karla Armbruster and Kathleen R Wallace, Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia, 2001. https://search-ebscohost-com.libproxy.plymouth.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mzh&AN=2001130092&site=ehost-live&authtype=sso&custid=plymouth Armbruster, Karla and Kathleen R Wallace. Beyond Nature Writing: expanding the boundaries of ecocriticism. Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia, 2001.Continue reading “Ecocriticism, global literature, and the postcolonial landscape.”

Generational Trauma in Danticat’s “The Dew Breaker”

Morgan Burdick Nic Helms Currents in Global Literature 13 October 2023 For this assignment, I decided to paint what generational trauma feels like, or what I assume it feels like. I was inspired to paint what generational trauma feels like after reading The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat. I am not a painter and yetContinue reading “Generational Trauma in Danticat’s “The Dew Breaker””