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The Haitian Diasporic Imaginary ft: Dr. Nadège Clitandre, UC-Santa Barbara

  • Student Center Ballroom B (map)

The internationally acclaimed author of Breath, Eyes, Memory and Krik? Krak!, Edwidge Danticat is the most prominent voice of the Haitian-American experience in the United States today.  Dr. Nadège Clitandre’s book on Danticat’s work focuses on the realities of immigration and diaspora and the imaginative opportunities that such an experience produces by means of a “glocalization” that shapes the writer’s disaporic consciousness.

Earlier Event: February 17
BSU & VIBES: What's The Tea
Later Event: February 18
Study Away Information Meeting