Health & Social Issues

Two Women...Two Worlds: Responses to Peripartum Cardiomyopathy

James D. Fett

Life as a Child Domestic Worker in Haiti

Anne Hatløy

The Restavec Condition: Jean-Robert Cadet's Disclosure

Lucía M. Suárez

Artistic Influences

Images of Gé Rouge in Étienne's La Femme muette and in Desquiron's Les Chemins de Loco-Miroir

Jayne R. Boisvert

Quelques romans de l'exil post-duvaliéristes: le retour impossible

Steve Puig

The Influence of Native American and Africn Encounters in Haitian Art

Barbara Nesin

Repression & Resistance

The Third US Intervention and Haiti's Paramilitary Predicament

Henry F. Carey

"The Grammar of a Film is a Political Act": Reflections on the Life of Jean Léopold Dominique

Kum Kum Bhavnani & John Foran

Writing History, Writing Trauma

Traumatic Realism in the Fiction of Edwidge Danticat

Cherie Meacham

The Map Within: Place, Displacement, and the Long Shadow of History in the Work of Edwidge Danticat

Patti M. Marxsen

Research Notes

Présentation de «Kasalé»: Organisée par l'Alliance Française d'Haïti

Kettly P. Mars

La volupté de l'ecriture de Kettly P. Mars

Leslie Péan

A Letter from Jean-Pierre Boyer to Greek Revolutionaries

E.G. Sideris & A. A. Konsta

 

Book Reviews

The Dew Breaker, by Edwidge Danticat

—Review by Alice Mills

Toussaint's Clause: The Founding Fathers and the Haitian Revolution, by Gordon S. Brown

—Review by Gerald Horne

Haitian-Dominican Counterpoint: Nation, Race, and State on Hispaniola, by Eugenio Matibag

—Review by Dawn F. Stinchcomb

Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World, by Tracy Kidder

—Review by Amanda Schondelmeyer

Foreign Shores, by Marie-Hélène Laforest

—Review by Valerie Kaussen

The Development of Literary Blackness in the Dominican Republic, by Dawn F. Stinchcomb

—Review by Jerome Branche