This found in the totalitarian and regimes in Haiti, as well as, the lives in America. The betrayal of women by men could be part of Danticta’s own personal life experience bleeding into her novel. Danticat was born in Haiti and moved to America at age twelve, to settle in New York. The author being a female from Haiti is important to understand why she uses female protagonists in her novel that suffer
her, God is “the inner spirit, the inner voice; the human compulsion when deeply distressed to seek healing counsel within ourselves, and the capacity within ourselves both to create this counsel and to receive it” (p.243). In reading the slave narratives, she saw “this inner spirit, this inner capacity for self-comforting, this ability to locate god
weeks readings are related to The Southern Renaissance, Ethnic Writings, The Native American Renaissance, Protest and Counterculture Poetry, Confessional Poets, Latina/Latino Poetry, and Asian American Poetry. Upon reflecting ten questions/quotes in my reading, which are Toni Morrison “Recitatif”; A Confessional Poet, Anne Sexton; Lois Gordon’s quote about Adrienne Rich’s work; Devonney Looser’s question about Sylvia Plath’s Confessional Poems; Jeffery F. L. Partridge’s quote about Li-Young Lee’s