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Aristide, Jean-Bertrand, 43, 47, 48, 77, 83, 99-101, 104, 142, 164
art: dangerousness of, 8-11, 19-20, 148
Haitian, 8-14, 44, 127
and persuasion, 7-8.
See also writers
Artibonite Valley, 51-52
assassinations, 41, 46, 48, 53-58, 63, 65, 71
attachés, 77-80
bagay la (the thing) [Haitian earthquake], 168
Barthes, Roland, 15, 139, 141, 147-48
Basquiat, Jean-Michel, 127-35
To Repel Ghosts, 133-34
Toussaint L’Ouverture Versus Savonarola, 132-33
Untitled 1982, 132
Baudelaire, Charles, 60
Beauséjour, Haiti, 21-40
Belafonte, Harry, 83
Bel Air, Haiti, 7-8, 13, 170-72
Bélance, Alèrte, 46, 73-85
Bell, Beverly, Walking on Fire, 85
Beloved (film), 84
Benoit, Patricia, 76-77, 81-84
Bible, 12
Bonaparte, Napoleon, 99, 132
Bouckman (Boukman), 102
Breath, Eyes, Memory (Danticat), 31-35
Breton, André, 129
Brigit, Gran, 149
Bush, George W., 108
camps, 18, 43, 164-65, 169
Camus, Albert, 9-11, 18
Caligula, 6-8, 12, 16
“Create Dangerously,” 13
“Jonas ou l’artiste au travail” (Jonah, or the Artist at Work), 148
Capote, Truman, 129
Carpentier, Alejo, The Kingdom of This World, 101-5
Carter, Jimmy, 141
catastrophes, 107-13, 146-47
Center for Constitutional Rights, 84
Central African Republic, 100
Le Centre d’Art, Port-au-Prince, 128, 129
Cervantes, Miguel de, 15
Césaire, Aimé, 9, 15
Cézanne, Paul, 71
Charles, Jacqueline, 146-47
Charles, Jhon, 163, 165-66, 168-70
The Charlie Rose Show (television show), 46
Christophe, Henri, 102-4, 164
Ciné Club, 43-44
cinema, 43-46
Clinton, Bill, 83
Le Club de Bonne Humeur, 7-8
coffee, 29, 35-37, 39-40
Colette, 11
USNS Comfort, 173
common humanity, 109-13
Cook, Mercer, 45
Corneille, Pierre, Le Cid, 6
Cortés, Hernán, 132
courage, of artists, 10, 148-49
Courage and Pain (documentary), 73-85
creation myths, 5-7
Cuba, 101-3
Dalembert, Louis Phillipe, 13
Daniels, Josephus, 64
Dannat, Adrian, 125
Danticat, Kelly, 75
Davvetas, Demosthenes, 132
Day, Edner, 13
death: and deportation, 88-93
in Egypt, 19-20
as family matter, 22-27, 31, 38-40, 88-96
in Haiti, 16-17, 137
last image before, 137
photography and, 139-40, 142-47
Vodou and, 134-35
writers and, 17-20
declarations of independence: American, 98
Haitian, 104
Delens (cousin’s roommate), 89-91, 94
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,