Essays on Breath, Eyes, Memory

Ancestral trauma can be inherited in Black and communities of color. In Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat, Sophie Caco is a Haitian woman who immigrated to the United States to be with her mother (Martine) after living majority of her childhood in Haiti without...

These two books are both about two young women. This essay will mostly compare than contrast since there are huge and important similarities between the novels. The main themes of the two books are duality and patriarchy, which are also their similarities. Breath, Eyes, Memory...

The aim of this paper is to study the concept of the trauma of black Haitian womanhood in Edwidge Danticat’s novel Breath, Eyes, Memory. The novel tells the story of a young Haitian-American woman Sophie Caco, who tries to reconstruct her identity and to find...