Abstract
This chapter aligns Edwidge Danticat’s New Yorker pieces with scholarship contextualizing the historical dimensions of Dominican and Haitian state violence as part and parcel of US imperial contexts. Edwidge Danticat’s powerful opening to “Enough is Enough” builds upon this legacy of artistic activism, specifically the act of chronicling the names of individuals murdered by the state. Edwidge Danticat's argument aligns with and expands upon Achille Mbembe’s prior notion of necropolitics, where Mbembe describes power as “dividing of people into those who must live and who must die.” Edwidge Danticat’s examination of the necropolitics at play in both nation-states doesn’t stop with an analysis of state violence solely at the hands of police. Edwidge Danticat uses the fast media of the digital op-editorial to draw a through-line between the various necropolitical manifestations of the state and the historic strong-arm of US imperialism.
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