Cover -- Contents -- Foreword: A Heart of Serenity in the Storm -- Introduction: Borders -- SECTION ONE: Contexts -- Inside Out: A Brief Biography of Edwidge Danticat -- Danticat and Her Haitian Precursors -- Danticat and Caribbean Women Writers -- Danticat and the African American Women's Literary Tradition -- SECTION TWO: Texts & Analyses -- Diasporic Politics: Danticat's Short Works -- Writing Young: Danticat's Young Adult Fiction -- Traveling, Writing: Danticat's After the Dance -- Marassa with a Difference: Danticat's Breath, Eyes, Memory -- Violence, Nation, and Memory: Danticat's The Farming of Bones -- Concealment, Displacement, and Disconnection: Danticat's The Dew Breaker -- SECTION THREE: Danticat & Her Peers -- Finally Edwidge Arrived -- The Right Side of History -- Balancing the Jar -- To the Text -- SECTION FOUR: Interview & Bibliography -- A Family Story: Danticat Talks about Her Newest-and Most Personal-Work -- Edwidge Danticat: A Selected Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.