Foreword. A soulful life at work / Nadege T. Clitandre
Introduction / Maia L. Butler, Joanna Davis-McElligatt, and Megan Feifer
Part I. Another country: nation and dyaspora. From her "little middle place": Edwidge Danticat's diasporic identity and poetics / Maria Rice Bellamy ; Lòt Bò Dlo, the other side of the water: examining the Kongo Cosmogram in Edwidge Danticat's The Farming of Bones / Joyce White ; "Cast Lòt Bò Dlo, across the seas": re/writing home and nation in Edwidge Danticat's Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work / Olga Blomgren ; Lòt Bò Dlo and the spatial relations of dyaspora / Gwen Bergner
Part II. Welcoming ghosts: memory and historicity. Writing Amerindian Ayiti: Edwidge Danticat's reclaimed memory and shifting homes / Erika V. Serrato ; Intertextually weaving a home-place: viewing the past as present in Breath, Eyes, Memory and Untwine / Tammie Jenkins ; Untwine: navigating memories through healing and self-definition / Shewonda Leger ; Collecting and releasing embodied memories: redefining shame in Edwidge Danticat's Breath, Eyes, Memory / Akia Jackson
Part III. I speak out: storytelling and narrative structure. "The listening gets too loud": the reader's task in Edwidge Danticat's Brother, I'm Dying / Laura Dawkins ; Reading Edwidge Danticat's essays in light of her fiction: diaspora, ethics, aesthetics / Lucía Stecher and Thomás Rothe ; Home exile, language, and the paratext in Anacaona: Golden Flower and Mama's Nightingale: A Story of Immigration and Separation / Cecile Accilien ; "Quietly, quietly": thinking and teaching the global South through Edwidge Danticat's intertextual writing, reading, and witnessing / Jennifer M. Lozano
Part IV. "Create dangerously": trauma, resilience, and the way forward. Edwidge Danticat: the ethics of disobedient writing / Isabel Caldeira ; More than a phrase: fighting silence and objectification in Danticat's Claire of the Sea Light / Delphine Gras ; Black butterflies: survival, transformation, and the invention of home in Edwidge Danticat's fiction and nonfiction / Marion Christina Rohrleitner
Afterword. To breathe a collective air / Thadious M. Davis.