Edwidge Danticat - Create Dangerously

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

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, 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

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