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Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist At Work (2010)

by Edwidge Danticat(Favorite Author)

4.11 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1400835909 (ISBN13: 9781400835904)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Princeton University Press

review 1: I loved this linked collection of memoir/essays exploring the task of creating under dangerous conditions, and the challenges of memory, witnessing, and self-definition of the immigrant and/or exiled artist. Most of the people Danticat writes about are Haitian artists, writers and intellectuals, and I loved learning about the ones I was unfamiliar with As a Caribbean writer and immigrant myself, and a witness to political and economic conditions far less harsh than Haiti's but still heartbreaking and requiring courage, I felt accompanied and heartened by these essays, and spurred to expand my reading of other Caribbean writers. It also made me want to write more about my own journeys and struggles. This is what the best writing always does for me, makes me w... morerite.
review 2: Edwidge Danticat's essays are pieces of writing I am sure I will go back to again and again. The subtitle of the book "Immigrant Artist at Work" is the theme that runs throughout. Danticat describes the choice of a Haitian artist to reflect the misery of their homeland, and later the beauty, the repression of writers, and what it means to be a writer in a country where fewer than half the population are literate. Danticat's title "create dangerously" comes from Camus, and she refers throughout her essays to other artists such as Roland Barth, Jean-Michel Basquiat, whose father was Haitian, whose work I will definitely follow up on. less

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