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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
Proust, 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,