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4 Haitian novels that beautifully blend history, memory and reality

  • Written by Marlene Daut, Professor of African Diaspora Studies, University of Virginia

Following the July 7, 2021 assassination of Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse and after one Haitian official requested that the U.N. and U.S. send troops to help stabilize the nation, many Haitian activists and artists recoiled at the prospect of yet another outside intervention.

The Haitian-American novelist Edwidge Danticat is one artist...

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