چکیده (انگلیسی):

This paper analyzes circular narratives and emotional intensities of Danticat’s The
Farming of Bones that are woven through her structured portrayals of an ordinary
Haitian as an individual and as part of a collective group. Through intimate
thoughts and dreams Danticat takes her readers through textual pleasures in light of
social hatred and violence that work to induce deep-seated primal fear and evoke
long-buried memories of massacre in many of its characters. Danticat’s circular
narrative in The Farming of Bones is not autobiographical, but rather dialogic. It is a
conversation with the past through a mosaic of memories that is multivocal,
multigenerational and consisting of multiple genres. At Massacre River, she fuses
literature with oraliture in order to dialogue with remnants of the past; memories of
the dead are relocated and reconstructed to overcome the boundaries between those
who experienced the massacre, those who did not, and those who were never aware
of it. In this paper, Danticat’s Farming of Bones is analyzed and critiqued within a
multidisciplinary discourse as it provides a rich and particular racial and military
archive to the 1937 massacre