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Trade 1 Create Dangerously The Immigrant Artist at Work PERSONAL REFLECTIONS ON ART AND EXILE FROM AWARD–WINNING WRITER EDWIDGE DANTICAT Edwidge Danticat 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 cri- sis. 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 and that continue to haunt them. Danticat 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 undocu- mented alien, and a renowned Haitian radio journalist whose political assassination shocked the world. Danticat writes about the Haitian novelists she first read as a girl at the Brook- lyn Public Library, a woman mutilated in a machete attack who became a public witness against torture, and the work of Jean- Michel Basquiat and other artists of Haitian descent. Danticat also suggests that the aftermaths of natural disasters in Haiti and the United States reveal that the countries are not as dif- “Edwidge Danticat’s prose has a Che- ferent as many Americans might like to believe. khovian simplicity—an abil