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
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
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