Traumatic identities during the Duvalieran era in Haitian Edwidge Danticat’s “The Dew Breaker”

Abstract EN

Thinking about what it takes to get something done, realizing that it is more than what is written on a paper; there are softer issues and blanks, thus, there is a need to think about how one is going to make that achievement happen.

increasingly, in the modernist or globalist world, there are not only stories on migration, but on migrants as well.

those stories are about people who cross borders not intending to stay in one place, or dissolve their identities.

they sometimes stay abroad or come back to their homes so; this new wave of literature examines identity from a position that is inside and outside, while living in the united states of America, but being not fully American, or British; in terms of identity.

thus, it is one of the most interesting new developments in the global novel.

from this standpoint, the research argues for a closer look at the narrative form that sheds light on people’s migration away from trauma of being killed, as in the case of “the dew breaker”.