Danticat Essay
CULT 320
Dina Copelman
Sunita Mehta
Danticat wrote “Create Dangerously” since she wanted express her own personal views on life living outside from her homeland Haiti. Danticat wanted to examine what it truly meant to be an immigrant artist from a country in crisis while at the same time showing readers experiences she went through first hand. Throughout the book she tells stories about many artists, she included who dealt with many horrors and tragedy’s. I believe from her own personal experience that she wants to get the message across that those who want to fight for justice should not give up until justice has been served. For her, she feels the worst type of guilt, the guilt of being a survivor while so many others were not. I believe she is trying to communicate the point of how she struggles with being an immigrant and living in the U.S. She tells us about how immigrants who have left have to deal with the loss of the connection to their homeland. They did not have a choice to leave. Their identity is destabilized, since they are unable to call both places home. They are …show more content…
She brings up the life of Jean Dominique, one of Haiti’s most famous journalists. In this essay she focuses on his life and how he had overcome so much throughout it. Dominique had survived many arrests and had ultimately returned to Haiti to open up his then radio station He was know to “express his opinions freely, without any fear and going as far as criticizing groups, organizations and even people who seemed to be unjust” (Danticat 42). As her essay goes on, she talks about her personal interaction she had with him as well. Danticat goes to quote “what seemed undeniably compelling and memorable about him was his exceptional passion for Haiti and how that passion had ultimately betrayed him” (Danticat
CULT 320
Dina Copelman
Sunita Mehta
Danticat wrote “Create Dangerously” since she wanted express her own personal views on life living outside from her homeland Haiti. Danticat wanted to examine what it truly meant to be an immigrant artist from a country in crisis while at the same time showing readers experiences she went through first hand. Throughout the book she tells stories about many artists, she included who dealt with many horrors and tragedy’s. I believe from her own personal experience that she wants to get the message across that those who want to fight for justice should not give up until justice has been served. For her, she feels the worst type of guilt, the guilt of being a survivor while so many others were not. I believe she is trying to communicate the point of how she struggles with being an immigrant and living in the U.S. She tells us about how immigrants who have left have to deal with the loss of the connection to their homeland. They did not have a choice to leave. Their identity is destabilized, since they are unable to call both places home. They are …show more content…
She brings up the life of Jean Dominique, one of Haiti’s most famous journalists. In this essay she focuses on his life and how he had overcome so much throughout it. Dominique had survived many arrests and had ultimately returned to Haiti to open up his then radio station He was know to “express his opinions freely, without any fear and going as far as criticizing groups, organizations and even people who seemed to be unjust” (Danticat 42). As her essay goes on, she talks about her personal interaction she had with him as well. Danticat goes to quote “what seemed undeniably compelling and memorable about him was his exceptional passion for Haiti and how that passion had ultimately betrayed him” (Danticat