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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

Table of Contents

Cover

Halftitle

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Chapter 1: Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work

Chapter 2: Walk Straight

Chapter 3: I Am Not a Journalist

Chapter 4: Daughters of Memory

Chapter 5: I Speak Out

Chapter 6: The Other Side of the Water

Chapter 7: Bicentennial

Chapter 8: Another Country

Chapter 9: Flying Home

Chapter 10: Welcoming Ghosts

Chapter 11: Acheiropoietos

Chapter 12: Our Guernica

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index