Metatextual description

Danticat's work has given a silenced Haiti back its voice back after the oppressive regimes of François Duvalier and his son Jean-Claude Duvalier. Krik? Krak! is one of the main texts Danticat wrote about the lives of pedestrian Haitians trying to survive under the Duvalier dictatorships. Danticat’s own parents fled Haiti because of the Duvaliers, and Danticat herself lived for 12 years under Jean-Claude’s dictatorship. This gives Danticat a unique personal connection to the stories she weaves in the collection. Few authors have tackled this history from this perspective or in the prose medium; that is the historical value of Krik? Krak!