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Roy, Miss (teacher), 60-61

Ruby, Jack, 141

Sacre-C?ur 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, Leopold, 15

September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, 112-13, 121-25

Septentrional band, 143-44

Seth (film character), 84

sevite (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, Evelyne, 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

veves (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, Emile, 60

zombies, 132-33

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