In a story from this collection, Josephine visits her mother, who was imprisoned for supposedly turning into a child-killing creature with wings of flame at night. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this short story collection that alternates between Haiti and New York. Celianne throws herself and her baby into the ocean in this collection’s story “Children of the Sea.”
ANSWER: Krik? Krak! (by Edwidge Danticat)
[10e] Carlos hears stories about the soucouyant, a shapeshifting woman who turns into fire, in Elizabeth Nunez’s Caribbean retelling of this Shakespeare play. It was also adapted by Aimé Césaire.
ANSWER: The Tempest [accept A Tempest or Une Tempête] (Nunez’s novel is Prospero’s Daughter.)
[10h] In a Nalo Hopkinson novel, a woman named for this character dreams of a soucouyant devouring her baby. In a play, the ghost of a fetus helps this man, who captures a goat and burns down a sugarcane plantation.
ANSWER: Ti-Jean [or Petit-Jean; accept Ti-Jeanne; accept Ti-Jean and His Brothers; prompt on Jean or Little John] (The novel is Brown Girl in the Ring. The play is by Derek Walcott.)
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