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LIVE from the NYPL | Edwidge Danticat with Paul Holdengräber: The Art of Immigration

The art of the immigrant experience in America has never lacked for political charge and complexity. Few people know this better than Edwidge Danticat. Haitian born, and raised partially in the States, Danticat has lived through a country which in the 80s and 90s regularly informed her that all Haitians had AIDS and now lives in the same country where the president has reportedly called her birthplace a “shithole.” Danticat, who celebrates the immigrant as artist by claiming that “re-creating your entire life is a form of reinvention on par with the greatest works of literature,” will discuss the manners in which she has wielded her art to raise up immigrant voices and how the turmoil of today is changing her approach to it for the future.











When: Fri., Apr. 6, 2018 at 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Where: New York Public Library—Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
476 Fifth Ave.
917-275-6975
Price: $40
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The art of the immigrant experience in America has never lacked for political charge and complexity. Few people know this better than Edwidge Danticat. Haitian born, and raised partially in the States, Danticat has lived through a country which in the 80s and 90s regularly informed her that all Haitians had AIDS and now lives in the same country where the president has reportedly called her birthplace a “shithole.” Danticat, who celebrates the immigrant as artist by claiming that “re-creating your entire life is a form of reinvention on par with the greatest works of literature,” will discuss the manners in which she has wielded her art to raise up immigrant voices and how the turmoil of today is changing her approach to it for the future.

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