Imageries Connected with Border in The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat

摘要

This essay indicates the intertwined relation between border and identity in Danticat’s novel The Farming of Bones.The author makes a combination of the recurring imageries like"River","Parsley"and"Twins"related to border—the Massacre River as a metaphor to emphasize this boundary which causes all the sufferings of Haitian people like Amabelle and the new hope the survivor are seeking for.