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The Book of the Dead is a long narrative poem written by Muriel Rukeyser, appearing in her collection US 1. Published in 1938, the poem deals with the Hawks Nest Tunnel disaster, also known as the Gauley Tunnel Tragedy, in which predominately poor, migrant mine workers in Gauley Bridge, West Virginia succumbed to death caused by the ...
The Dew Breaker is a collection of linked stories by Edwidge Danticat, published in 2004. The title comes from the Haitian Creole name for a torturer during the regimes of François "Papa Doc" and Jean Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier. The book can be read either as a novel or collection of short stories.
Edwidge Danticat ( Haitian Creole pronunciation: [ɛdwidʒ dãtika]; born January 19, 1969) [1] is a Haitian-American novelist and short story writer. Her first novel, Breath, Eyes, Memory, was published in 1994 and went on to become an Oprah's Book Club selection. Danticat has since written or edited several books and has been the recipient of ...
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is a 2007 novel written by Dominican American author Junot Díaz. Although a work of fiction, the novel is set in New Jersey in the United States, where Díaz was raised, and it deals with the Dominican Republic's experience under dictator Rafael Trujillo. [1] The book chronicles the life of Oscar de León ...
In Haiti, Edwidge Danticat saw America as a beacon of freedom. But recent legislation in her current state of Florida, echoes the oppression her family fled Edwidge Danticat on Living and Writing ...
The Farming of Bones. Farming of Bones is a work of historical fiction by Edwidge Danticat, published in 1998. It tells the story of an orphaned young Haitian woman living in the Dominican Republic who gets caught up in the carnage of the Parsley massacre during the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo .
The words include: My mouth is opened, by mouth is split open by Shu with that iron harpoon of his with which he split open the mouths of the gods. — Book of the Dead, spell 23 [3] 24. Secured some essential ability for the deceased. 25. Caused the deceased to remember his name after death.
The Book of the Dead was most commonly written in hieroglyphic or hieratic script on a papyrus scroll, and often illustrated with vignettes depicting the deceased and their journey into the afterlife. The finest extant example of the Egyptian in antiquity is the Papyrus of Ani. Ani was an Egyptian scribe.