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Create dangerously : the immigrant artist at work / Edwidge Danticat

By: Series: Toni Morrison lecture seriesCopyright date: New York : Vintage Books, c2011Edition: 1st Vintage books edDescription: 193 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780307946430
  • 0307946436
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813.54 .D193 2011
LOC classification:
  • PS3554.A5815 Z463 2011
Contents:
Create dangerously: the immigrant artist at work -- Walk straight -- I am not a journalist -- Daughters of memory -- I speak out -- The other side of the water -- Bicentennial -- Another country -- Flying home -- Welcoming ghosts -- Acheiropoietos -- Our guernica -- A year and a day
Summary: "In this deeply personal book, the celebrated Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat reflects on art and exile. Inspired by Albert Camus and adapting her own lectures for Princeton University's Toni Morrison Lecture Series, Danticat tells stories of artists who create despite (or because of) the horrors that drove them from their homelands. Combining memoir and essay, these moving and eloquent pieces examine what it means to be an artist from a country in crisis."-- Back cover
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Includes bibliographical references and index

Create dangerously: the immigrant artist at work -- Walk straight -- I am not a journalist -- Daughters of memory -- I speak out -- The other side of the water -- Bicentennial -- Another country -- Flying home -- Welcoming ghosts -- Acheiropoietos -- Our guernica -- A year and a day

"In this deeply personal book, the celebrated Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat reflects on art and exile. Inspired by Albert Camus and adapting her own lectures for Princeton University's Toni Morrison Lecture Series, Danticat tells stories of artists who create despite (or because of) the horrors that drove them from their homelands. Combining memoir and essay, these moving and eloquent pieces examine what it means to be an artist from a country in crisis."-- Back cover

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