Create Dangerously (21 page)

immigrant artists,
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-19,
49
,
65
,
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-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
,
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-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,
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-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,
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-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,
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-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,
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-85

Toussaint L’Ouverture Airport, Port-au-Prince,
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-63,
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-73

Tropical Storm Jeanne,
108
,
158

Trouillot, Évelyne,
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-60

Trouillot, Lyonel,
160

tsunamis,
108

Turgeau neighborhood, Port-au-Prince,
171

Twenty-third Psalm,
120

United States: Chilean intervention by,
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and Haitian earthquake,
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-63,
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-73

Haitian interventions by,
43
,
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,
69
,
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and Haitian revolution,
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Hurricane Katrina in,
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-10,
113

poverty in,
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-11,
113

revolution in,
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U.S. Coast Guard,
173

U.S. Department of Homeland Security,
155

vèvès
(cornmeal drawings),
103
,
129
-30,
133

Vieux-Chauvet, Marie,
9
,
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-71

Les Enfants d’Ogoun
(The Children of Ogoun),
71

Love, Anger, Madness
,
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-69,
71

Les Rapaces
(The Vultures),
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-70

Vincent, Jean-Marie,
48

virginity testing,
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-33

Vodou,
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,
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,
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,
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-31,
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-35,
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Voltaire,
11
,
60

Walker, Alice,
10
,
14

Walking on Fire
(oral history),
85

Whitman, Walt,
15

Winfrey, Oprah,
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writers: “citizenship” of,
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-16

courage of,
10
,
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-49

and creation myths,
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-6

and death,
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-20

in Haiti,
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,
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-14,
28
,
60
,
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-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,
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-96,
167
-68

Zola, Émile,
60

zombies,
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-33