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- Title
Passageways of Remembrance.
- Authors
Callahan, Sarah
- Abstract
This essay discusses author Edwidge Danticat's treatment of narrating the transformation of an individual and the memory for the living in her novel "The Farming of Bones" which is a remembrance of the 1937 Haitian massacre in Dominican Republic under the regime of General Rafael Trujillo. Emphasis given by the author to dreams as coping mechanism of the massacre survivors with the loss of their loved ones; Other approach used by the author to create collective remembrance of the characters of their dead loved ones; Method used by the author to convey the psychological distress of Haitian prisoners endured in Dominican captivity.
- Subjects
ESSAYS; CHANGE (Psychology); MEMORY; FARMING of Bones, The (Book); DANTICAT, Edwidge, 1969-; DOMINICAN-Haitian Conflict, 1937; TRUJILLO, Rafael, 1891-1961; DREAMS
- Publication
Obsidian III, 2005, Vol 6/7, Issue 2/1, p240
- ISSN
1542-1619
- Publication type
Literary Criticism