Create Dangerously

Afterwords: Novelists on Their Novels, 33

AIDS, 89, 91

airline flights, 115-21

Alexis, Jacques Stephen, 11-14

Allende, Isabel, 112-13

Allende, Salvador, 112

Alliance Francaise, 7, 43-44

Almodovar, Pedro, 47

Alphonse-Ferere, Gerard, 49

Alvin Ailey Dance Company, 129

Amado, Jorge, 15

andaki (code), 65

Les Araignees du soir (Spiders of the Night), 68

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

attaches, 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

Beausejour, Haiti, 21-40

Belafonte, Harry, 83

Bel Air, Haiti, 7-8, 13, 170-72

Belance, Alerte, 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, Andre, 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

Cesaire, Aime, 9, 15

Cezanne, 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

Cine 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

Cortes, Hernan, 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

Delira Delivrance (fictional character), 45-46

Demme, Jonathan, 42-43, 46, 50, 55, 84

The Agronomist, 52-53

Depestre, Rene, 9

Deren, Maya, vii, 131-32

Dessalines, Jean-Jacques, 103-4, 164