


Coeditor of Hispanic and Francophone Studies Contemporary Perspectives (2009), Negritude: Legacy and Present Relevance (2009), Antillanité, Créolité, Littérature-monde (2013). Author of L'univers mythique de Tchicaya U Tam'si à travers son œuvre en prose (1998), Des transpositions francophones du mythe de Chaka (2002), Ecritures en situation postcoloniale: Francophonies périphériques (2013), Du mythe à la littérature: une lecture de textes africains et caribéens (2013). Petit Séminaire Kalonda (1969-75) Philosophy at Grand Séminaire Mayidi (1975-78) Theology at Urbaniana, Rome (1979-82 Bishop's Secretary (1982-87) Priest of Kenge Diocese (1983-98) MA, PhD, Fribourg (1987-97, 99) Lecturer at Humboldt University, Seminar für Afrikawissenschaften, Berlin (1999-2001). Primary school (1963-69) in Mutoni-Toy, Makiosi, Kenge and Kimbau.

She has a special purse bought at a two dollars store. She had a restricted number of words she used repeatedly in her conversations. At the factory where she worked, she hardly used English. Although she spent more than twenty years in the US, she never mastered the English language. A mother who made sure that Edwidge and sibling had food and proper education. She described her as a humble, generous and religious mother who was very dedicated to her family.

The daughter was at the side of her mother when she passed away crossing the ineluctable border between life and the other world. Art of Death from what I picked is essentially about Edwidge Danticat's mother, Rose, who died in 2004.
