Toni Morrison Lecture: Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work (Hardcover)

from jnwelch

"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. Coming from where I come from, with the histo...

from whitewavedarling

Danticat's memoir of her journey and work as an artist, and her thoughts on artistry as they are related to conflict and exile, are well worth reading for any individual engaged in the creative process or working with student writers from diverse backgrounds. The simplicity and the power of her l...

from BillPilgrim

These essays are about Haiti and Haitians in exile. The author is a native, who moved to the USA as a child. She writes about her relatives in a deeply personal in insightful way. She also instructs on the history of her native country, its political troubles and natural disasters. The last story...

from St.CroixSue

Fabulous new work by Edwidge Danticat, author of 'Brother I'm Dying.' Powerful yet written with straightforward simplicity, Danticat's essays portray a stunning testimony to the spirit of resistance, art, and the role of the immigrant. An image of Haiti through luminous words. SH

from BillPilgrim

These essays are about Haiti and Haitians in exile. The author is a native, who moved to the USA as a child. She writes about her relatives in a deeply personal in insightful way. She also instructs on the history of her native country, its political troubles and natural disasters. The last story...