Louding Voices: Bennett, Danticat and Daré

“My mama say education will give me a voice. I want more than just a voice, Ms. Tia. I want a louding voice,” I say. “I want to enter a room and people will hear me even before I open my mouth to be speaking. I want to live in this life and help many people so that when I grow old and die, I will still be living through the people I am helping.”
― Abi Daré, The Girl with the Louding Voice

Explore the work of Brit Bennett, Edwidge Danticat and Abi Daré in this six-week Delve. Bennett’s novel,The Vanishing, is a multi-generational saga that tells the story of two sisters growing up in the South, and the different paths their lives take. Acclaimed author Edwidge Danticatt’s new story collection, Everything Inside, includes stories about community, family and love, including many set in Haiti. In The Girl With the Louding Voice Nigerian author and debut novelist’s Abi Daré’s pidgin(broken English) is used in the narrator’s voice throughout the novel. Discussions will include topics around class, race, the roles of children as domestics in African culture, family, and belonging. Bennett and and Danticat will be appearing at Portland Arts and Lectures in February and May.

Texts:
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Everything Inside by Edwidge Danticat
The Girl With the Louding Voice by Abi Daré

Access Program
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