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Primary Sources:  Works by Edwidge Danticat

Bell, Beverly, and Edwidge Danticat, eds. Walking on Fire: Haitian Women’s Stories of Survival and Resistance. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2001 (forthcoming).
- - -. "Aha!" Becoming American: Personal Essays by First Generation Immigrant Women. Ed. Meri Nana-Ama Danquah. New York: Hyperion, 2000.
- - -. "An Atrocity Lushly Revisited." Interview conducted online; excerpts reprinted with permission from www.barnesandnoble.com. Chicago Sun-Times 4 Oct. 1998, final ed.: NC19.
- - -. "A Bitter Legacy Revisited." Interview. Publishers Weekly 245.33 (1998): 42.
- - -. "‘Bonjour, Jean’: Widow of Journalist J. Dominique Wants Justice in Haiti." Nation 19 Feb. 2001: 20-2.
- - -. "The Book of the Dead." Giant Steps: The New Generation of African American Writers. Ed. Kevin Young. New York: Perennial, 2000.
- - -. "The Book of the Dead." New Yorker 28 June 1999: 194.
- - -. "The Book of the Dead." Stories in the Stepmother Tongue. Eds. Josip Novakovich and Robert Shapard. Buffalo: White Pine, 2000.
- - -. "Brave New Worlds: The Future in My Arms." Essence May 2001: 169-70.
- - -. Breath, Eyes, Memory. New York: Soho, 1994.
- - -. Breath, Eyes, Memory. New York: Vintage, 1995.
- - -. Breath, Eyes, Memory. Thorndike, ME: Thorndike, 1998.
- - -. "The Dangerous Job of Edwidge Danticat: An Interview." Interview with Renee H. Shea. Callaloo 19.2 (1996): 382-9.
- - -. "Dies Irae." American Fiction: States of the Art. Ed. Bradford Morrow, Walter Abish, et al. New York: Conjunctions, 2000.
- - -. "Dream of the Butterflies." Belles Lettres 10 (1995): 16.
- - -. "Dream of the Butterflies." The Caribbean Writer 5 (1991): 98-99.
- - -. "Epilogue: Women Like Us." Step Into a World: A Global Anthology of the New Black Literature. Ed. Kevin Powell. New York: Wiley, 2000.
- - -. The Farming of Bones. New York: Soho, 1998.
- - -. The Farming of Bones. Thorndike, ME: Thorndike, 1999.
- - -. "The Flow of History." Interview with Cameron Crouch. In These Times 29 Nov. 1998: 24.
- - -. Foreword. A Community of Equals: The Constitutional Protection of New Americans. Eds. Owen M. Fiss, Joshua Cohen, and Joel Rogers. Boston: Beacon, 1999.
- - -. Foreword. Like the Dew That Waters the Grass: Words from Haitian Women. By Marie M. Racine and Kathy Ogle. Washington: EPICA, 1999.
- - -. Foreword. The Magic Orange Tree and Other Haitian Folktales. Collected by Diane Wolkstein. New York: Schocken, 1997.
- - -. Foreword. Starting with "I": Personal Essays by Teenagers by Youth Communication. Eds. Andrea Estepa and Philip Kay. New York: Persea, 1997.
- - -. Foreword. Their Eyes Were Watching God. By Zora Neale Hurston. New York: HarperCollins, 2000.
- - -. "A Fountain of Peace." On the Wings of Peace. Ed. Sheila Hamanaka. New York: Clarion, 1995.
- - -. "From the Ocean Floor." Rhythm and Revolt: Tales of the Antilles. Ed. Marcela Breton. New York: Plume, 1995.
- - -. "Graduation." The Caribbean Writer 5 (1991): 100-3.
- - -. Haiti: A Bi-Cultural Experience. Lecture. Washington D.C.: IDB Cultural Center, 1995.
- - -. "Hanging with the Fugees." Essence Aug. 1996: 85-86.
- - -. "I Pass On." Essence May 2001: 160.
- - -. Interview with Eleanor Wachtel. Brick 65-66 (2000): 106-19.
- - -. Interview with Matthew Rothschild. Audiocassette. Progressive, 1996.
- - -. Interview with Renee H. Shea. Belles Lettres 10.3 (1995): 12.
- - -. Interview with Rosalind Bentley and Christa Worthington. Star Tribune (Minneapolis) 12 Sept. 1999, metro ed.: 20F.
- - -. "The Journals of Water Days 1986: An Excerpt." Callaloo 19.2 (1996): 376-81.
- - -. Krik? Krak! New York: Soho, 1995.
- - -. Krik? Krak! New York: Vintage, 1996.
- - -. "Let My People Stay." Essence July 1994: 124.
- - -. "Lost Shadows and Stick Figures." The Caribbean Writer 6 (1992): 104-6.
- - -. "Massacre Victims Not Forgotten." Interview. Toronto Star 23 Oct. 1998.
- - -. "Music." Harper’s Bazaar 1 June 1996: 62.
- - -. "My Father Once Chased Rainbows." Essence Nov. 1993: 48.
- - -. "My New York." New York 33.49 (2000): 96.
- - -. "My Turn in the Fire: An Abridged Novel." M.F.A. Thesis. Brown University, 1993.
- - -. "Papi." Family: American Writers Remember Their Own. Ed. Sharon Sloan Fiffer and Steve Fiffer. Collingdale: Diane, 2000.
- - -. "Plantains, Please." The Caribbean Writer 13 (1999): 179-80.
- - -. "A Rain of Daffodils." Seventeen Apr. 1994: 152+.
- - -. "The Revenant." The Best of Young American Novelists. London: Granta, 1996.
- - -. "The Revenant." Granta 54 (1996): 97+.
- - -. "Roaring Twenties: Storyteller’s Art Combines Haiti Rhythm, American Wit." Interview with Elizabeth Lenhard. Atlanta Journal and Constitution 7 Sept. 1995: 2B.
- - -. "Rose-Anne August, Haiti’s Freedom Fighter." Essence June 1995: 50-51.
- - -. "Sacred Secrets." Hungry Midnight 4. Broadside. Stockholm, WI: Midnight Paper Sales, 2000.
- - -. "Sawfish Soup." The Caribbean Writer 5 (1991): 10-11.
- - -. "Three Young Voices." With Veronica Chambers and Sheneska Jackson. Essence May 1996: 101-5.
- - -. "The Voice of the Storytellers: An Interview with Edwidge Danticat." Interview with Zoe Anglesey. MultiCultural Review 7.3 (1998): 36.
- - -. "Voices in a Dream." The Caribbean Writer 7 (1993): 71-4.
- - -. "Water Child." New Yorker 11 Sept. 2000: 84.
- - -. "We Are Ugly, but We Are Here." The Caribbean Writer 10 (1996): 137-41.
- - -. "Westbury Court." The Best American Essays 2000. Ed. Alan P. Lightman. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
- - -. "Westbury Court." New Letters 65.4 (1999): 51.
- - -, and Junot Diaz. "The Dominican Republic’s War on Haitian Workers." New York Times 20 Nov. 1999.
- - -, contributor. Mothers Through the Eyes of Women Writers: A Barnard College Collection. Ed. Judith Shapiro. Berkeley: Conari, 2001.
- - -, contributor. Tameme: Nueva Literatura de Norteamerica [Tameme: New Writing from North America]. Los Altos: Tameme, 1998.
- - -, ed. The Beacon Best of 2000: Great Writing by Women and Men of All Colors and Cultures. Boston: Beacon, 2000.
- - -, ed. and introduction. The Butterfly’s Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States. New York: Soho, 2001.
- - -, participant. Indivisible. Video. New York: Barnard College, 1996.
- - -, presenter. Yari Yari: Black Women Writers and the Future: An International Conference on Literature by Women of African Descent. Videocassette. Third World Newsreel, 1999.
Danticat’s short stories have been published in the following journals and anthologies:



The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories. Ed. Daniel Halpern. New York: Viking, 1999.
The Bluelight Corner: Black Women Writing on Passion, Sex, and Romantic Love. Ed. Rosemarie Robotham. New York: Three Rivers, 1999.
Caribbean Women Writers. Ed. and Introduction Harold Bloom. Broomall, PA: Chelsea House, 1997.
The Caribbean Writer. Online. Available: <www.thecaribbeanwriter.com>.
Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1967 to the Present. Ed. Gloria Naylor. Boston: Little, Brown; 1995.
Essence May 1996.
The Granta Book of the American Long Story. Ed. Richard Ford. London: Granta, 1998.
The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories. Ed. Stewart Brown and John Wickham. Oxford UP, 1999.
Short Stories for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Commonly Studied Short Stories. Ed. Kathleen Wilson. Detroit: Gale, 1997.
The Vintage Contemporaries Reader. New York: Vintage, 1998.
The Whistling Bird: Women Writers of the Caribbean. Eds. Elaine Campbell and Pierrette Frickey. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1998.
World & I July 1995.



Secondary Sources Edwidge Danticat

Ards, Angela. Rev. of Krik? Krak! Village Voice 11 July 1995: 11.
Asim, Jabari. "Speaking Volumes: Young Literary Lions." Emerge Oct. 1998: 70-71.
Barnes, Missy R. "‘The Tale Differs with the Teller’: Subversive Fables and Proverbs in Edna O’Brien’s House of Splendid Isolation and Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory." Thesis. U of North Carolina at Wilmington, 1999.
Ben-Ali, Russell. "A Dream Come True… She Has Write Stuff." Daily News (New York) 20 Oct. 1995: 3.
Benson, Mary Margaret. Rev. of The Farming of Bones. Library Journal Aug. 1998: 130.
Best, Shavahn. Rev. of The Farming of Bones. MultiCultural Review 7.3 (1998): 61.
"Black History: 100 Essential Black Books." Michigan Citizen 6 Feb. 2000: A8.
Boothroyd, Jim. "Haitian Heroine is a Survivor." Rev. of Breath, Eyes, Memory. Gazette (Montreal) 17 Sept. 1994, final ed.: I7.
Braunschweiger, Jennifer. "A Few Good Books: Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat." Seventeen Aug. 1996: 160.
Braziel, Jana Evans. "Nomadism, Diaspora and Deracination in Contemporary Migrant Literatures." Diss. U of Massachussetts at Amherst, 2000.
Rev. of Breath, Eyes, Memory. Ebony Apr. 1994: 14.
"Breath, Eyes, Memory Author Tells of Life in Haiti." Weekend Edition. Natl. Public Radio. 24 Apr. 1994.
Brenkman, John. "Cry, the Beloved Island." Rev. of Breath, Eyes, Memory. Newsday 24 Apr. 1994: 31.
Brice-Finch, Jacqueline. Rev. of The Farming of Bones. World Literature Today 73 (1999): 377.
- - -. "The Killing Cane Fields." Rev. of The Farming of Bones. Washington Post 4 Oct. 1998: X4.
Brown, Carmen. "Another Side: Edwidge Danticat." QBR: The Black Book Review Nov.-Dec. 1999: 32-33.
Brown-Hinds, Paulette D. "Long-Memoried Women: Memory and Migration in 20th Century Black Women’s Narrative." Diss. U of California-Riverside, 1998.
Bruner, Charlotte H. "World Literature in Review: Haiti." Rev. of Breath, Eyes, Memory. World Literature Today 69 (1995): 417.
Campbell-Johnston, Rachel. "Bittersweet Symphony." Rev. of The Farming of Bones. Times (London) 20 Mar. 1999. Online archive.
Casimir, Leslie. "From Secrecy of a Shared Humiliation Emerges Advocate for Haitian Women." Miami Herald 27 July 1994: E1.
Chadwell, Faye A. Rev. of Krik? Krak! Library Journal 15 Mar. 1995: 100.
Charles, Nick. "In Fresh Voice, a Familiar Warmth." Daily News (New York) 27 Oct. 1995: 10.
Charters, Mallay. "Edwidge Danticat: A Bitter Legacy Revisited." Publishers Weekly 17 Aug. 1998: 42-43.
Cleary, Barbara A., and Mary C. Whittemore. "Gender Study Enriches Students’ Lives." English Journal 88.3 (1999): 86-90.
Cleary, Sharon. Rev. of The Farming of Bones. Wall Street Journal 28 Aug. 1998: W7.
Cummings-Yates, Rosalind. "Award-Winning Author Connects Bones to Haitian Past." Chicago Sun-Times 25 Sept. 1998, final ed.: NC24.
"Danticat Explores Haitian Lives in New Short Stories." Weekend Edition. Natl. Public Radio. 7 May 1995.
DeLoughrey, Elizabeth Mary. "Antipodean Archipelagoes: Post-Colonial Cartographies in Caribbean and Pacific Island Literatures." Diss. U of Maryland – College Park, 1999.
Dobosz, Ann Marie. Rev. of The Farming of Bones. Ms. Sept. 1998: 89.
Donahue, Deirdre. "Literary Lights Get Their Opportunity to Shine: Modern Haiti’s Pride and Pain." USA Today 9 Nov. 1995, final ed.: 6D.
Douglas, Carol Anne. "Tales of Haitian Women." Off Our Backs Mar. 1999: 13.
Eder, Richard. "Novel Recalls Haiti’s Bloody History with a Deft Use of Language." Rev. of The Farming of Bones. Los Angeles Times 16 Sept. 1998: E6.
- - -. "A Slaughter of Neighbors, Lovers and Hope." Newsday (New York) 17 Sept. 1998, sec. II: B02.
Elam, Patricia. "One Island, Two Lives." Rev. of The Farming of Bones. Emerge Oct. 1998: 71.
Epstein, Grace A. Rev. of The Farming of Bones. Antioch Review 57 (1999): 106.
Ettlinger, Marion. "Portraits." Granta 54 (1996): n. pag.
Farley, Christopher John. "Smiling Amid Corpses." Rev. of The Farming of Bones. Time 7 Sept. 1998: 78.
Rev. of The Farming of Bones. Booklist 1 Jan. 1999: 778.
Rev. of The Farming of Bones. New Yorker 23 Nov. 1998: 109.
Rev. of The Farming of Bones. People Weekly 28 Dec. 1998: 42.
Feigenbaum, Nancy. "Danticat’s Powerful Haitian Stories." Chicago Tribune 24 July 1995, sec. 5: 2.
Fichtner, Maureen. "Author Edwidge Danticat Writes About Being Young, Black, Haitian and Female." Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service 1 May 1995: 501K5621.
Fichtner, Margaria. "Delivered by the Massacre River into a Nightmare of Terror." Rev. of The Farming of Bones. Miami Herald 13 Sept. 1998: L5.
- - -. "The Healing Art of Writing." Miami Herald 19 Apr. 1995: E1.
Francis, Aisha X. L. "Language and the Black Body Politic in Edwidge Danticat’s The Farming of Bones." Thesis. Vanderbilt University, 1999.
Freeman, Suzanne. "Both Nightmare and Poetry." Boston Globe 13 Sept. 1998, city ed.: C1.
French, Howard. Rev. of Breath, Eyes, Memory. Emerge Apr. 1994: 61.
Furio, Joanne. "Sag Harbor Poet Offers Readings to Reflect Blacks in the Arts." New York Times 18 June 1995: LI10.
Gardiner, Beth. "Writer’s Work Recalls Journey from Port-Au-Prince to Brooklyn." Los Angeles Sentinel 28 May 1998: A15.
Gerber, Nancy F. "Binding the Narrative Thread: Storytelling and the Mother-Daughter Relationship in Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory." Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering 2.2 (2000): 188-99.
- - -. "From Shadow to Substance: The Figure of the Mother-Artist in Contemporary American Fiction." Diss. Rutgers State U of New Jersey, 1999.
Gladstone, Jim. Rev. of Breath, Eyes, Memory. New York Times Book Review 10 July 1994, sec. 7: 24.
Goldblatt, Patricia. "Finding a Voice for the Victimized." MultiCultural Review 9.3 (2000): 40-47.
Gonzalez, Carolina. "Fertile Ground for Farming: Oprah Loved Her First Novel, Which Can’t Hurt Edwidge Danticat’s New One." Daily News (New York) 15 Oct. 1998: 61.
Gregory, Deborah. "Word Star: Edwidge Danticat Dreaming of Haiti." Essence Apr. 1995: 56.
Griffiths, Emilie. "A Bookbag for Fall: A Roundup of the Season’s New Offerings." America 6 Nov. 1999: 8.
"Haitian-American Author Writes Stories of Homeland." All Things Considered. Natl. Public Radio. 12 July 1995.
Hanauer, Cathi. Rev. of The Farming of Bones. Mademoiselle Sept. 1998: 188.
Hart, Jordana. "Danticat’s Stories Pulse with Haitian Heartbeat." Boston Globe 19 July 1995, city ed.: 70.
- - -. "Debut Novel Reveals Haiti’s Heart." Boston Globe 12 Aug. 1994, city ed.: 53.
- - -. "Real-Life Plot Twists: Young Novelists’ Life Stories Have a Captive Audience." Boston Globe 13 May 1998: B1.
- - -. "Snapshots of Haiti: Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat." Ms. Mar.-Apr. 1995: 75.
Havens, Shirley E. Rev. of Breath, Eyes, Memory. Library Journal 15 Nov. 1994: 116.
Hayward, Helen. "Burial of the Ghosts." Rev. of The Farming of Bones. Times Literary Supplement 28 Apr. 2000: 23.
Herbert, Rosemary. "Writing in the Margins: Author-Editor Edwidge Danticat Celebrates Rich Pageant of Multicultural Stories." Boston Herald 17 Nov. 2000: 043.
Hoback, Jane. "A Haunting Look at Injustice." Denver Rocky Mountain News 6 Sept. 1998: 2E.
Houston, Robert. "Expecting Angels." Rev. of Krik? Krak! New York Times Book Review 23 Apr. 1995, sec. 7: 22.
Hower, Edward. "A New Voice from Haiti: Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat." World & I July 1995: 238-43.
"An Island of Stories." Chicago Defender 7 May 1996: 13.
Jaffrey, Zia. Rev. of The Farming of Bones. The Nation 16 Nov. 1998: 62+.
Jones, Malcolm, Jr. "The Desi Chain." Newsweek 10 July 1995: 34-35.
Jones, Marie F. Rev. of Breath, Eyes, Memory. Library Journal 15 Mar. 1994: 100.
Kanner, Ellen. "‘You Hear My Mother Who Speaks Through Me.’" Rev. of Krik? Krak! Miami Herald 9 Apr. 1995: I3.
Kellman, Steven G. "Parsley a Password in Bloody Trujillo Era." Plain Dealer 20 Sept. 1998, final ed.: I11.
Knowles, Roberta Q. Rev. of Breath, Eyes, Memory. The Caribbean Writer 8 (1994): 168-9.
Kraft, Dottie. Rev. of The Farming of Bones. School Library Journal 1 Nov. 1998: 160.
Rev. of Krik? Krak! All Things Considered. Natl. Public Radio. 29 Mar. 1995.
Rev. of Krik? Krak! Essence May 1996: 104+.
Laforest, Marie-Hélène. "Diasporic Encounters: Remapping the Caribbean." Napoli: Istituo unversitario orientale, Dipartimento di studi letterari e linguistici dell’Occidente: Liguori Editore. 2000.
Lanham, Fritz. Rev. of The Farming of Bones. Houston Chronicle 4 Oct. 1998: ZS2.
Leedham, Nicola Elizabeth. "Afrocentric Mythology and Cultural Retentions in the African-American Novel." Diss. University of South Carolina, 1995.
Lenhard, Elizabeth. "Storyteller’s Art Combines Haiti Rhythm, American Wit." Atlanta Constitution 7 Sept. 1995: B2.
Mackay, Mary. "Living, Seeing, Remembering – Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat." Belles Lettres: A Review of Books by Women 10.1 (1994): 36+.
Mangan, Patricia L. "Tales from the Carib: Award-Winning Author Edwidge Danticat Tells of Life, Death and Absent Mom." Daily News (New York) 25 Nov. 1995: 13.
Maryles, Daisy. "Oprah’s Newest Pick." Rev. of Breath, Eyes, Memory. Publishers Weekly 25 May 1998: 20.
Mathews, Laura. Rev. of Krik? Krak! Glamour Apr. 1995: 198.
Mead, Rebecca. "Stepmother Tongue." New York 20 Nov. 1995: 50-51.
Morgan, Elaine. "Haitian-Born Novelist Danticat to Read The Farming of Bones." Tampa Tribune 21 Nov. 1998, Florida ed.: 5.
Mujica, Barbara. Rev. of The Farming of Bones. Américas Feb. 2000: 62.
Nelson, Sara. "Smartest Sagas." Rev. of The Farming of Bones. Glamour Dec. 1998: 88.
"The New New Yorkers: An Ode to Children of the Sea." Newsday (New York) 13 May 1998, Queens ed.: A45.
Nurse, Donna. "Bitter Memories Color Love of Homeland." Toronto Star 26 Aug. 1995: L12.
N’Zengo-Tayo, Marie-José. "Children in Haitian Popular Migration as Seen by Maryse Conde and Edwidge Danticat." In Winds of Change: The Transforming Voices of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars. Ed. Adele S. Newson and Linda Strong-Leek. New York: Peter Lang, 1998. 93-100.
- - -. "Rewriting Folklore: Traditional Beliefs and Popular Culture in Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory and Krik? Krak!" MaComere: Journal of the Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars 3 (2000): 123-40.
Obejas, Achy. "Endurance Tests Edwidge Danticat’s Novel About Life, Love and the Fight to Survive." Chicago Tribune 20 Sept. 1998, sec. 14: 1.
Omang, Joanne. Rev. of Krik? Krak! Washington Post 14 May 1995: X04.
Ortiz, Lisa Marie. "Autoethnography: Genealogical, Autobiographical, and Historical Recovery in the Novels of Alvarez, Cliff, and Danticat." Diss. Wayne State U, 2000.
Patterson, Christina. "A Brooklyn Bridge-Builder: Edwidge Danticat – Once a Poor Immigrant, Now a Rising Literary Star – Talks to Christina Patterson." Independent (London) 13 Mar. 1999: 14.
Paylor, Diane R. Rev. of Breath, Eyes, Memory. Sassy Apr. 1994: 36.
Peck, Dale. "Field of Screams." Rev. of The Farming of Bones. Village Voice 29 Sept. 1998: 135.
Peerman, Dean. Rev. of The Farming of Bones. The Christian Century 22 Sept. 1999: 885.
"People." Essence 25.12 (1995): 48.
Peters, Linda. "More Talk About Books: Of Mothers and Stories." English Journal July 1999: 118.
Peterson, V. R. Rev. of The Farming of Bones. Essence Oct. 1998: 94.
Philpott, Joan. Rev. of Breath, Eyes, Memory. Ms. Mar.-Apr. 1994: 77-78.
Pierre-Pierre, Garry. "At Home with Edwidge Danticat: Haitian Tales, Flatbush Scenes." Rev. of Breath, Eyes, Memory. New York Times 26 Jan. 1995: C1.
- - -. "Hip-Hop Idol Is the Pride of a People: Young Haitian-Americans Get Help Against Stigma." New York Times 28 Mar. 1998: B1+.
Poon, Angelia. "Re-Writing the Male Text: Mapping Cultural Spaces in Edwidge Danticat’s Krik? Krak! and Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place." Jouvert: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies 4.2 (2000): 30+. Online archive.
Purnick, Joyce. "Schools Offered Lots of Help to a Shy Haitian Girl – But That Was Then." New York Times 23 Oct. 1995: B3.
Putnam, Amanda Ann. "Legacies and Literacies: Life Lessons from Black Grandmothers and Other Matrilineal Substitutes." Diss. U of Nebraska – Lincoln, 1999.
Rattray, Bess. Rev. of The Farming of Bones. Artforum (suppl.) (fall 1998): 19.
Rhone, Shauna Scott. "Haitian Writer Digs into Horror of 1937 Massacre." St. Louis Post-Dispatch 21 Sept. 1999: D3+.
Rothschild, Matthew. Rev. of The Farming of Bones. Progressive Dec. 1998: 44.
Ruta, Suzanne. "Innocent Bystanders?" Rev. of Breath, Eyes, Memory. Women’s Review of Books Oct. 1994: 1+.
Ryder, Ginny. Rev. of Krik? Krak! School Library Journal May 1995: 135.
Seaman, Donna. Rev. of The Farming of Bones. Booklist Aug. 1998: 1959.
- - -. Rev. of Krik? Krak! Booklist 15 Feb. 1995: 1057.
Shacochis, Bob. Rev. of Breath, Eyes, Memory. Book World 3 Apr. 1994: 6.
- - -. "A Daughter of the Haitian Diaspora." Miami Herald 17 Apr. 1994: I3.
- - -. "Island in the Dark." Rev. of Breath, Eyes, Memory. Washington Post 3 Apr. 1994: WBK6.
Shea, Renee H. "‘The Hunger to Tell’: Edwidge Danticat and The Farming of Bones." MaComere: Journal of the Association of the Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars 2 (1999): 12-22.
- - -. "Traveling Worlds with Edwidge Danticat." Poets and Writers 1 Jan. 1997: 42.
Sheanin, Wendy. "Haitian Memories Haunt an Émigré in New York." San Francisco Chronicle 18 Dec. 1994, rev. sec.: 6.
- - -. "Stories Resound with Haiti’s Tragedy, Spirit." Rev. of Krik? Krak! San Francisco Chronicle 28 May 1995, rev. sec.: 4.
Singleton, Janet. "Demeanor Disguises Rising Talent Edwidge Danticat Draws on Haitian Background." Denver Post 12 Dec. 1999: H–03.
Smolowe, Jill. Rev. of The Farming of Bones. People Weekly 28 Sept. 1998: 51.
Steinberg, Sybil S. Rev. of Breath, Eyes, Memory. Publishers Weekly 24 Jan. 1994: 39-40.
- - -. Rev. of The Farming of Bones. Publishers Weekly 8 June 1998: 44.
- - -. Rev. of Krik? Krak! Publishers Weekly 20 Feb. 1995: 195.
Sturgis, Ingrid. "Young Author Reclaims Haiti’s Stories as Birthright." Emerge Apr. 1995: 58-59.
"Summer Reading: Selections by Black Writers." American Visions June-July 1995: 30-1.
Tapley, Mel. "Paule Marshall and the New Generation." Amsterdam News 25 Nov. 1995: 23.
Tharps, Lori L. Rev. of The Farming of Bones. Entertainment Weekly 18 Sept. 1998: 82.
Thompson, Jean. "Exploring the World of Black Writers: African-American Literature." Baltimore Sun 19 Dec. 1999: 12D.
Thomson, Ian. "Life in a Voodoo Valhalla." Rev. of Breath, Eyes, Memory. Independent 25 Mar. 1995: 26.
Traugott, Maggie. "The Fear of Red Knickers." Rev. of Krik? Krak! Independent (London) 28 July 1996: 30.
Trent, Kim. Rev. of The Farming of Bones. Michigan Chronicle 12 May 1999: B4.
Trescott, Jacqueline. "Author Danticat Captures a Painful Episode in Haitian History." Augusta Chronicle 12 Dec. 1995: F05.
- - -. ‘Edwidge Danticat: Personal History; In a 1937 Massacre, the Writer Found a Fable for Our Time." Washington Post 11 Oct. 1999: C1.
- - -. "Her Tales of Haiti Eloquent, Melancholy." Palm Beach Post 17 Oct. 1999: 2J.
"21 for the 21st." Ms. Sept. 1997: 102-111.
Upchurch, Michael. "More Fiction from a Bold, New Voice." Rev. of Krik? Krak! Seattle Times 30 Apr. 1995, final ed.: M2.
- - -. "No Room for the Living." New York Times Book Review 27 Sep. 1998, sec. 7: 13.
Valburn, Marjorie. "Haiti’s Tradition of Story-Telling Arrives Through a Young Writer." Rev. of Krik? Krak! Philadelphia Inquirer 6 Aug. 1995: M2.
Van Boven, Sarah. "Massacre River." Rev. of The Farming of Bones. Newsweek 7 Sept. 1998: 69.
Vidimos, Robin. "Ethnic Hate Haunts Woman." Rev. of The Farming of Bones. Denver Post 27 Sept. 1998: J05.
Walker, Whitney. "Best Bet Books: What Writers Are Reading." Ms. July-Aug. 1995: 70-75.
Waters, Erika J. Rev. of Krik? Krak! The Caribbean Writer 9 (1995): 260-2.
Watrous, Peter. "Author’s Quest for Identity Uncovers Universal Themes." New York Times 27 May 1997: C1.
Williams, Wilda. "Best Books of 1995." Library Journal Jan. 1996: 47.
Wilson, Calvin. "Edwidge Danticat’s Prose Floats in a Realm of Sadness and Eloquence." Kansas City Star 22 Sept. 1999: K0779.
Wren, Andrea M. "Elegant Eloquence from New Novelist." St. Louis Post-Dispatch 6 Nov. 1994: C5.
Wucker, Michele. "Edwidge Danticat: A Voice for the Voiceless." Américas May-June 2000: 40.
- - -. "Powerful, Poetic Prose: Danticat at Her Best in Compelling Story." Rev. of The Farming of Bones. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 13 Sept. 1998: 13.
Wylie, Hal. "Haiti." Rev. of Krik? Krak! World Literature Today 70 (1996): 224-5.