Create Dangerously

INDEX

Adam (Biblical figure), 5-6

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 Française, 7, 43-44

Almodóvar, Pedro, 47

Alphonse-Férère, Gérard, 49

Alvin Ailey Dance Company, 129

Amado, Jorge, 15

andaki (code), 65

Les Araignées 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

attachés, 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

Beauséjour, Haiti, 21-40

Belafonte, Harry, 83

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

Bélance, Alèrte, 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, André, 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

Césaire, Aimé, 9, 15

Cézanne, 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

Ciné 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

Cortés, Hernán, 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

Délira Délivrance (fictional character), 45-46

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

The Agronomist, 52-53

Depestre, René, 9

Deren, Maya, vii, 131-32

Dessalines, Jean-Jacques, 103-4, 164

The Dew Breaker (Danticat), 11, 62

Díaz, Junot, 149

Diderot, Denis, 15

disasters, 107-13, 146-47

Dominican Republic, 70

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

Mémoire d’une amnésique (Memoirs of an Amnesiac), 61-65

Mémoire 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, père, The Three Musketeers, 60

Dumas, Marie-Cesette, 60

Duvalier, François “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

Étonnants 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

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

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, Émile, 60

zombies, 132-33