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  Délira Délivrance (fictional character), 45-46

  Demme, Jonathan, 42-43, 46, 50, 55, 84

  The Agronomist, 52-53

  Depestre, René, 9

  Deren, Maya, vii, 131-32

  Dessalines, Jean-Jacques, 103-4, 164

  The Dew Breaker (Danticat), 11, 62

  Díaz, Junot, 149

  Diderot, Denis, 15

  disasters, 107-13, 146-47

  Dominican Republic, 70

  Dominique, Jan J., 59, 61-66, 70-71, 159

  Mémoire d’une amnésique (Memoirs of an Amnesiac), 61-65

  Mémoire errante (Wandering Memory), 52, 66, 70

  Dominique, Jean, 41-58, 65, 70-71, 83, 159

  Mais je suis belle (But I Am Beautiful), 44

  Dominique, Philippe, 42

  Donna (airline passenger), 117-18

  Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 71

  Drouin, Louis, 1-8, 12-14, 20, 44, 63, 137-41, 148-50

  Du Bois, W.E.B., 64

  Dumas, Alexandre, fils, Camille, 60

  Dumas, Alexandre, père, The Three Musketeers, 60

  Dumas, Marie-Cesette, 60

  Duvalier, François “Papa Doc,” 1-2, 5-9, 12, 16, 42, 63, 67-69, 137, 140, 143

  Duvalier, Jean-Claude, 10, 69

  dyaspora, 49-51. See also exile

  Egypt, 19-20

  Ellison, Ralph Waldo, 10

  “Flying Home”, 124, 126

  Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 10, 16, 124-26

  Erzulie Freda, 129, 133, 134

  Étonnants Voyageurs, 160

  Euripides, 11

  Eve (Biblical figure), 5-6, 10

  executions, 1-8, 12, 63, 137-39, 149-50

  exile, 6, 69. See also dyaspora

  Fanon, Frantz, 9

  Farivar, Masood, 112

  Farrell, Patrick, 146

  Fellini, Federico, La Strada, 43

  fiction, and truth, 32-33

  Flaubert, Gustave, 15

  Madame Bovary, 66

  flying. See airline flights

  Fort Dimanche, 43

  Fouché, Franck, 9-10

  France, 99

  Frankétienne, 13, 14

  FRAPH, 84

  Freeman Funeral Home, 89-94

  Garcia Márquez, Gabriel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, 17

  Gédéon, Marie Maude, 119

  General Hospital, Port-au-Prince, 163, 165-66

  Genet, Jean, Les Nègres, 153-54, 173

  Gibbs, Nancy, 109

  Ginen, 134-35

  Glover, Danny, 83

  God and gods, 5, 19, 55, 71, 103-104, 129, 134, 160, 173

  Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

  Gonaïves, Haiti, 158

  Gopnik, Adam, 135

  Goudougoudou (Haitian earthquake), 168

  Greek literature, 9

  Greene, Graham, The Comedians, 9

  guapa (beautiful and courageous), 47, 53, 66

  Haiti: art of, 8-14, 44, 127

  assassinations in, 41, 46, 48, 53-58, 63, 65, 71

  cinema in, 43-46

  death in, 16-17

  declaration of independence of, 104

  Duvalier fils’s rule in, 69-70

  Duvalier’s rule in, 1-14, 42-44, 50, 60, 63, 67-69, 140

  and dyaspora, 49-51

  earthquake in, 18-19, 150-51, 153-54 156-73

  literacy in, 44, 50. (see also reading in)

  literary portrayals of, 32-35

  memory in, 63-65

  military regime in, 46, 73-85

  photographs of, 139-45, 150-51

  popular perception of, 32, 109-10

  post-revolution, 99-101

  reading in, 59-61, 65 (see also literacy in)

  revolution in, 67, 97-105

  Tropical Storm Jeanne in, 108, 158

  United States and, 43, 64, 69, 97-100

  writers in, 9, 13-14, 28, 60, 68-69

  Hamilton, Alexander, 99

  Hammad, Suheir, 123, 159

  Heartfield, Kate, 109

  Holder, Geoffrey, 129

  hougan (Vodou priest), 131

  Hughes, Langston, 45

  hurricanes, 107-9

  Hurston, Zora Neale, 107

  Hyppolite, Hector, 128-35, 164

  illiteracy, 44, 50

  Ilyana, Tante, 21-31, 35-40, 94, 119

  immigrant artists, 15-19, 49, 65, 94-95, 159

  Izméry, Antoine, 46, 48

  Japan, 120

  Jefferson, Thomas, 97-100, 102-3

  Notes on the State of Virginia, 100

  Jeune Haiti (Young Haiti), 2, 6

  John F. Kennedy Airport, New York City, 39

  Joseph, Uncle, 21, 23-27, 29-30, 35, 37, 154-55

  Katrina, Hurricane, 108-10, 113

  Kedar, Daniel, 146-47

  Kennedy, John F., 141

  Kipling, Rudyard, 15

  Kocache, Moukhtar, 125

  Koinange, Jeff, 109

  Krik? Krak! (Danticat), 120

  Labuchin, Rassoul, Anita, 44-45

  Laferrière, Dany, 160-62

  L’Enigme du Retour (The Enigma of Return), 161-62

  Je suis un écrivain japonais (I Am a Japanese Writer), 15

  La Fontaine, Jean de, 60

  LaGuardia Airport, New York City, 119-20

  Lalanne, Jean Wilner, 54

  Lambi (journal), 6

  Lawrence, D. H., Lady Chatterley’s Lover, 66

  Legba, 129-30, 132-34

  Léogâne, Haiti, 21-40, 154, 169-70

  Leroy, Felix Morisseau, 10

  “Tourist,” 145

  Liberia, 99

  Lincoln, Abraham, 99

  Lope de Vega, Félix, 15

  lòt bò dlo (the other side of the water), 94, 95, 148-49, 171

  Louisiana Purchase, 99

  Louissaint, Jean Claude, 51, 53, 54

  L’Ouverture, Toussaint, 97, 101-4, 132-33, 164

  lwas (Vodou spirits), 129-31, 133

  magic realism, 103

  Makandal, 101

  Malary, Guy, 46, 48

  Mallarmé, Stéphane, 95

  Mandelstam, Osip, 10, 11

  Manuel (fictional character), 45-46

  Marius (cousin), 87-95

  Le Matin (newspaper), 5

  Maxime Dantica, 163, 166

  Maxo Dantica, 11, 21, 153-56, 170-73

  memory, 63-65

  mercenary artists, 144

  Miami, 87-91, 155

  Midnight Oil, 87

  Miller, Marc, 127-28, 135

  mizisyen pale (mercenary artists), 144

  Monica Dantica, 163, 166-67

  Montas, Michèle, 41, 47, 51-58

  Morel, Daniel, 137-51

  Morrison, Toni, 10, 17, 84

  Song of Solomon, 123

  Morse, Richard, 168

  Nan (film character), 84

  The Nation (magazine), 53

  national palace, Port-au-Prince, 42, 164-165

  NC (“Naomi Campbell”) [cousin], 157, 167-69

  Neptune, Dolores Dominique, 159

  New Orleans, 108-110

  Nick Dantica, 21-26, 28-29, 35, 37, 163

  Nöel, Ti, 101-2

  Nozial, 156, 157, 171, 172

  Numa, Marcel, 1-8, 12-14, 20, 44, 63, 137-41, 148-50

  Numa, Nono, 6

  O’Brien, Soledad, 109

  Ogoun, 71, 103, 104, 129, 133

  Orchestre Septentrional d’Haiti, 143-44

  Oswald, Lee Harvey, 141

  Paris Match (magazine), 141

  Pascal, Blaise, 60

  Peace Memorial Museum, Hiroshima, 120

  Pedro, Sophia, 108

  Peters, Dewitt, 128-29

  Phil Donahue Show (television show), 46, 81, 83

  photography, 138-51

  Picasso, Pablo, Guernica, 130, 170

  Pickering, Timothy, 98-99

  Port-au-Prince, 158, 163-65

  poverty, in the United States, 110-11, 113

  Préval, René, 54, 55

  Prometheus, 55

  Pr
oust, Marcel, 71

  Rabelais, François, 60

  Racine, Jean, 60

  Radio Haiti Inter, 41-43, 45, 50, 54-55, 58

  readers and reading: dangers of, 8-11

  experience of, 16

  in Haiti, 8-9, 11, 59-61, 65

  real marvelous, 103

  Regan, Jane, 144

  Réjouis, Rose-Myriam, 68

  Resnais, Alain, Night and Fog, 43-44

  revolution, 97-105

  Richards, Michael, 123-26

  Are You Down, 124

  Tar Baby vs. Saint Sebastian, 125

  Winged, 124

  Robinson, Randall, 83

  Rodman, Selden, 129, 131

  Roumain, Jacques, 15

  Gouverneurs de la rosée (Master of the Dew), 45-46, 61-62

  Roy, Miss (teacher), 60-61

  Ruby, Jack, 141

  Sacré-Cœur Church, Port-au-Prince, 171-72

  Saint, Assotto, 116-17

  Samedi, Baron, 16, 63, 129, 133, 149

  Samson (Haitian earthquake), 168

  Sand, George, 11

  Santeria, 75

  Sarandon, Susan, 83

  Schnabel, Julian, 130

  Seide, Maxime, 57

  self-doubt, 19

  Senghor, Léopold, 15

  September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, 112-13, 121-25

  Septentrional band, 143-44

  Seth (film character), 84

  sèvitè (devotee of Vodou), 131

  Shakespeare, William, 15

  slavery, 63-67, 134

  slave uprising in Haiti, 67, 97-99

  Sontag, Susan, 139-40

  Sophocles, 10

  Antigone, 9, 16

  Oedipus Rex, 9, 16

  Soyinka, Wole, 121

  terrorism, 111. See also September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks

  Thoby-Marcelin, Philippe, 128

  Time (magazine), 5

  Ti Rasta (Haitian earthquake), 168

  Ti Roro (Haitian earthquake), 168

  Titanyen, 77, 80

  Tonnerre, Boisrond, 104

  Tonton Jean, 163, 165-66, 168

  Tonton Macoutes, 3, 63, 70, 144

  torture, 73-85

  Toussaint L’Ouverture Airport, Port-au-Prince, 162-63, 172-73

  Tropical Storm Jeanne, 108, 158

  Trouillot, Évelyne, 159-60

  Trouillot, Lyonel, 160

  tsunamis, 108

  Turgeau neighborhood, Port-au-Prince, 171

  Twenty-third Psalm, 120

  United States: Chilean intervention by, 112

  and Haitian earthquake, 162-63, 172-73

  Haitian interventions by, 43, 64, 69, 99-100

  and Haitian revolution, 97-99

  Hurricane Katrina in, 108-10, 113

  poverty in, 110-11, 113

  revolution in, 97

  U.S. Coast Guard, 173

  U.S. Department of Homeland Security, 155

  vèvès (cornmeal drawings), 103, 129-30, 133

  Vieux-Chauvet, Marie, 9, 69-71

  Les Enfants d’Ogoun (The Children of Ogoun), 71

  Love, Anger, Madness, 66-69, 71

  Les Rapaces (The Vultures), 69-70

  Vincent, Jean-Marie, 48

  virginity testing, 32-33

  Vodou, 75, 103, 104, 129-31, 134-35, 160

  Voltaire, 11, 60

  Walker, Alice, 10, 14

  Walking on Fire (oral history), 85

  Whitman, Walt, 15

  Winfrey, Oprah, 31

  writers: “citizenship” of, 15-16

  courage of, 10, 148-49

  and creation myths, 5-6

  and death, 17-20

  in Haiti, 9, 13-14, 28, 60, 68-69

  immigrant, 15-19, 49, 65, 94-95, 159

  incapacity of, 66, 71, 123, 159

  and memory, 65

  relationship of, to readers, 15-16. See also art

  YouTube, 127

  Zi, Tante, 88-96, 167-68

  Zola, Émile, 60

  zombies, 132-33

 


 

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