The Farming of Bones_ A Novel - Edwidge Danticat [106]
To my manman, my muse, who taught me all about pèsi and other mysteries. Yes, I do always remember that these stories—and all the others—are yours to tell and not mine. To Jacques Stephen Alexis, for Compere General Soleil. One. Always.
The following works were also helpful in my research: Suzy Castor’s he Massacre de 1937 et les Relations Haitiano-Dommicaines, Bernard Diederich’s Trujillo, the Death of the Dictator, Rita Dove’s wonderful poem, “Parsley,” Blood in the Streets by Albert C. Hicks, His Excellency Bernardo Vega’s Trujillo y Haiti, as well as the pamphlet “Beyond the Bateyes: Haitian Immigrants in the Dominican Republic,” written by Patrick Gavigan and published by the National Coalition of Haitian Rights. President Stenio Vincent’s letter, which appears on the endpapers, was found among the papers of Sumner Welles in the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Library by Ambassador Bernardo Vega. The words of Rafael Trujillo’s speeches were quoted and paraphrased from Chapter 21 of the book President Truijllo, His Work and the Dominican Republic, written by Lawrence De Besault and published in Santiago in the Dominican Republic by Editorial El Diario in 1941.
And the very last words, last on the page but always first in my memory, must be offered to those who died in the massacre of 1937, to those who survived to testify, and to the constant struggle of those who still toil in the cane fields.
Table of Contents
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Acknowledgements