Create Dangerously (eBook)

The Immigrant Artist at Work

Edwidge Danticat (Autor)

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2025
172 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-27809-4 (ISBN)

Infos

A New York Times Notable BookA Miami Herald Best Book of the YearA moving and deeply personal account of art and exile from Edwidge Danticat, winner of two National Book Critics Circle Awardsnow with a new preface by the authorCreate 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 DangerouslyIn 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 despiteor because ofthe 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.11.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Schlagworte: Albert Camus • Alejo Carpentier • another woman • assassination • Baron Samedi • Cemetery • Cornel West • creation myth • Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos) • Dictatorship • Duvalier • Exile and the Kingdom • Fort Dimanche • François Duvalier • Graham Greene • grandparent • Haitian Revolution • Haitians • Hector Hyppolite • Henri Christophe • His Family • Hurricane Katrina • In the Bedroom • Jacques Roumain • Jacques Stephen Alexis • Jean-Bertrand Aristide • Jean Dominique • Jean Genet • JEAN-JACQUES DESSALINES • Jean-Michel Basquiat • Jonathan Demme • L'artiste • La Strada • Le Cid • Literature • Madame Bovary • magic realism • Memoir • Morgue • Mutability (poem) • Napoleon • newspaper • Nostalgia • novelist • one hundred years of solitude • Osip Mandelstam • Poetry • Prosper Avril • Ralph Ellison • Ralph Waldo Emerson • Roland Barthes • Saint Sebastian • Short Story • Slavery • Song of Solomon (novel) • Sophocles • Susan Sarandon • Susan Sontag • The Agronomist • The Artist at Work • The Dew Breaker • their eyes were watching god • The Kingdom of This World • The Peasants • Thrill Me • Toni Morrison • Toussaint Louverture • W. E. B. Du Bois • Wole Soyinka • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-27809-1 / 0691278091
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-27809-4 / 9780691278094