TONIGHT ON THE TERRORDOME: Edwidge Danticat on Why Haitians Survive
6 pm Mountain Time FM 88.5 Edmonton cjsr.com worldwide Download or stream In the midst of the horrifying tragedy of Haiti’s earthquake and the hundreds of thousands of people it killed, it’s critical to understand how the Haitian people have survived not just natural disasters, but more than 200 years of Euro-American oppression, occupation and economic enslavement. Traditionally, artists collect people’s experiences and reflect them back. For people living under tyranny, the artist’s role is indispensable: distilling and harnessing those aspects of our lives which give us meaning, hope, joy and dignity. Haitian-American novelist Edwidge Danticat rose to fame through the quality of her prose, and because she so carefully animated the experiences of Haitians surviving the Empire. She’s the author of eight books, including 2008’s Brother, I’m Dying , 2005’s The Dew Breaker , 1999’s The Farming of Bones , and her most well-known novels, Breath, Eyes, Memory published in 1998, which be...