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Edwidge Danticat. Krik? Krak] New York. Soho. 1995. 224 pages. $20. ISBN 1-56947-025-1.
Edwidge Danticat is a major new talent who combines her Haitian heritage with her first-class American education to produce stories that transcend the quest for Haitian identity to scrutinize the modern world. Born in Haiti in 1969, she spent her first twelve years in the new Haiti of violence and horror, before moving to New York City. The emotions of her childhood made her a published writer by age fourteen, and seem to have sharpened her vision.
Danticat is not the first Haitian to write in English, but she is the first to gain attention. Her hybrid nature reflects the no-longer-isolated Haiti that has emerged as a pivotal crossroads of the...