摘要：Edwidge Danticat is a contemporary writer of Haitian heritage who resides in the United States. Although she was unable to speak English until the age of twelve when she moved to New York, she has since become an award-winning novelist and writer. Her debut novel Breath, Eyes, Memory was released in 1994. Most recently, she was awarded the Dayton Literary Peace Prize which honours ‘the power of literature to promote peace and non-violent conflict resolution’.1 Hailing from a tradition of women storytellers, Edwidge Danticat longed to be a teller of tales. In her much lauded memoir Brother, I’m Dying she initially charms the reader with her chronicle of a childhood spent in Haiti both before and after she is temporarily abandoned by her parents. Edwidge is then raised by her father’s brother, Joseph, with whom she develops a loving relationship which subsequently shapes her future as a writer. Hers is a selfless memoir, essentially the story of two brothers: the writer’s father Mira, and her uncle Joseph. Their stories seesaw from the quotidian of Queens, New York, to the belligerence of Bel Air, Port-au-Prince while Danticat expertly recounts the story through the eyes of a daughter and a niece.es this
