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The Dew Breaker (Danticat), 11, 62

Diaz, Junot, 149

Diderot, Denis, 15

disasters, 107-13, 146-47

Dominican Republic, 70

Dominique, Jan J., 59, 61-66, 70-71, 159

Memoire d’une amnesique (Memoirs of an Amnesiac), 61-65

Memoire errante (Wandering Memory), 52, 66, 70

Dominique, Jean, 41-58, 65, 70-71, 83, 159

Mais je suis belle (But I Am Beautiful), 44

Dominique, Philippe, 42

Donna (airline passenger), 117-18

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 71

Drouin, Louis, 1-8, 12-14, 20, 44, 63, 137-41, 148-50

Du Bois, W.E.B., 64

Dumas, Alexandre, fils, Camille, 60

Dumas, Alexandre, pere, The Three Musketeers, 60

Dumas, Marie-Cesette, 60

Duvalier, Francois “Papa Doc,” 1-2, 5-9, 12, 16, 42, 63, 67-69, 137, 140, 143

Duvalier, Jean-Claude, 10, 69

dyaspora, 49-51. See also exile

Egypt, 19-20

Ellison, Ralph Waldo, 10

“Flying Home”, 124, 126

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 10, 16, 124-26

Erzulie Freda, 129, 133, 134

Etonnants Voyageurs, 160

Euripides, 11

Eve (Biblical figure), 5-6, 10

executions, 1-8, 12, 63, 137-39, 149-50

exile, 6, 69. See also dyaspora

Fanon, Frantz, 9

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

Fouche, Franck, 9-10

France, 99

Franketienne, 13, 14

FRAPH, 84

Freeman Funeral Home, 89-94

Garcia Marquez, Gabriel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, 17

Gedeon, Marie Maude, 119

General Hospital, Port-au-Prince, 163, 165-66

Genet, Jean, Les Negres, 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

Gonaives, 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

Izmery, 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