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Haitian-born author Edwidge Danticat talks of her life and life’s work

By Carol Amoruso, IMDiversity

Haitian American author, Edwidge Danticat, is featured in a visually annotated interview produced by Ann Armstrong Scarborough of Mosaic Media Arts, an educational media company.  Ms. Danticat, who has earned numerous prizes for her short stories and novels, speaks about her early years in Haiti, and of the lasting influence of the strong women around her, which served to anchor her during the terrible times of the Duvalierist era of brutal dictatorship.

She speaks at length of her creative work, too, of the sense of mystery and magic that are strong and colorful threads running through the Haitian genealogy, and which inescapably pervade her own work.  Ms. Danticat’s verbal images evoke the same “naïve sophistication” that the many examples of Haitian painting, used as illustration in the film, do.

The DVD, Edwidge Danticat Visits her Haitian Roots, is available through Full Duck Productions, owned by director Susan Wilcox, and is especially appropriate for use as an educational tool.

It is part of a series distributed by Mosaic Media that profiles a number of significant French Caribbean artists, some of whom are less widely known in the U.S. than they should be, including poets Aimé Césaire, Jocelyn Valverde and Maryse Condé, among others.  Most of the videos are available in both English and French versions.

More information about the series can be found at the website for Mosaic Media, http://www.mosaicmediaarts.com.

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