An Exploration Of The Female Discourse In Edwidge Danticat's Short Story Cycle Krik? Krak

This thesis has focused on Edwidge Danticat,a Haitian-American woman writer,and her short story cycle Krik? Krak!.Regarded as a representative of the postcolonial literary discourse,Edwidge Danticat has illustrated her life experiences and her inherited memory of the post-colonial Haiti through the national and cross-national political and military conflicts,which have largely contributed to the brutal living environment and cruel oppression forced upon all the Haitian females.With the female discourse in Edwidge Danticat's work as the main entry point,the thesis aims to demonstrate a clear scope of the process through which Danticat has gradually marginalized in her narratives and even eliminated the dominant male discourse and then de-marginalized and finally established the systematic female discourse inside the Haitian environment,both under the oppressive power dynamics of the Haitian male totalitarian dictatorship,and outside Haiti facing the harsh immigrant experiences in the United States.