Create Dangerously — Edwidge Danticat (2010) The Title Essay and Its Founding Image

Create Dangerously — Edwidge Danticat (2010) Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work is Edwidge Danticat's essay collection on the ethics, obligations, and costs of artistic production for the Haitian diaspora writer. Published in 2010 — the year of the January 12 earthquake — it doubles as both a theory of diasporic artistic responsibility and an act of witness to what that responsibility requires under conditions of catastrophic loss. The collection is both a poetics and an argument, and the argument is inseparable from its occasion.