
Create Dangerously
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A New York Times Notable Book A Miami Herald Best Book of the Year A moving and deeply personal account of art and exile from Edwidge Danticat, winner of two National Book Critics Circle Awards-now with a new preface by the author "Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. This is what I've always thought it meant to be a writer. Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her life to read them."-Create Dangerously In this deeply personal book, the celebrated Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat reflects on art and exile, examining what it means to be an immigrant artist from a country in crisis. Inspired by Albert Camus' lecture, "Create Dangerously," and combining memoir and essay, Danticat tells the stories of artists, including herself, who create despite-or because of-the horrors that drove them from their homelands. She writes about the Haitian novelists she first read as a girl at the Brooklyn Public Library, Jean-Michel Basquiat and other artists of Haitian descent, and a renowned Haitian radio journalist whose political assassination shocked the world. She also eulogizes an aunt who guarded her family's homestead in the Haitian countryside, a cousin who died of AIDS while living in Miami as an undocumented immigrant, and a Haitian woman mutilated in a machete attack who became a public witness against torture. Create Dangerously is an eloquent and moving expression of Danticat's belief that immigrant artists are obliged to bear witness when their countries of origin are suffering from violence, oppression, poverty, and tragedy.
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- Cover
- Contents
- Preface to the 2025 Edition
- Chapter 1: Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work
- Chapter 2: Walk Straight
- Chapter 3: I Am Not a Journalist
- Chapter 4: Daughters of Memory
- Chapter 5: I Speak Out
- Chapter 6: The Other Side of the Water
- Chapter 7: Bicentennial
- Chapter 8: Another Country
- Chapter 9: Flying Home
- Chapter 10: Welcoming Ghosts
- Chapter 11: Acheiropoietos
- Chapter 12: Our Guernica
- Postscript: A Year and a Day
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
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