"It's a strange amalgam of celebration and memory and reflection." "This isn't a play!" declares Brittany Bellizeare, a vibrant vision in a yellow suit and jaunty red cap. Is extraordinarily ambitious in the number of psychological and intellectual themes she introduces in "Breath, Eyes, Memory." She is also extraordinarily successful.In Create Dangerously, a new play based on the work of Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat, an actor portraying playwright-director Liliana Blain-Cruz describes what the audience is about to see. Danticat (who was born in Haiti, raised there by an aunt and sent to join her parents in the United States at the age of 12) Danticat also includes two veritable Prince Charmings who go underappreciated by these same women,įurther evidence of her inclination, even in highly charged scenes, to be fair rather than doctrinaire. Is lovingly dominated by powerful female characters who struggle to make better lives for themselves and their families. Set in both Haiti and New York, where the narrator is sent to join her immigrant mother, the tale In the end, her book achieves an emotional complexity that lifts it out of the realm of the potboiler and into that of poetry. Danticat's calm clarity of vision takes on the resonance ofįolk art. "Breath, Eyes, Memory" seems inappropriate for its subject matter - which includes rape and sexual abuse as well as third world political strife - but Ms. Occasionally the matter-of-fact tone of the swift, simple prose in HAITIAN-AMERICAN NOVEL BREATH, EYES, MEMORYĮdwidge Danticat's slim yet densely packed first novel chronicles three generations of Haitian and Haitian-American women.
July 10, 1994, Sunday, Late Edition - Final The New York Times: Book Review Search Article
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