Spring 2005

Journal of Haitian Studies, Volume 11, Number 1

Contents

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

Reviews

Edwidge Danticat, The Dew Breaker (Alice Mills)
Gordon S. Brown, Toussaint's Clause: The Founding Fathers and the Haitian Revolution (Gerald Horne)
Eugenio Matibag ,Haitian-Dominican Counterpoint: Nation, Race, and State on Hispaniola (Dawn F. Stinchcomb)
Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World (Amanda Schondelmeyer)
Marie-Hélène Laforest, Foreign Shores (Valerie Kaussen)
Dawn F. Stinchcomb, The Development of Literary Blackness in the Dominican Republic (Jerome Branche)

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Editorial Board

Editor
Claudine Michel
University of California, Santa Barbara

Associate Editors
Patrick Bellegarde-Smith
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

LeGrace Benson
Arts of Haiti Research Project, Ithaca, New York

Book Review Editor
Flore Zéphir
University of Missouri-Columbia

Managing Editor
Adam Kaiserman
University of California, Santa Barbara

Editorial Board
Erika Bourguignon
Ohio State University

Karen McCarthy Brown
Drew University

Myriam Chancy
Louisiana State University

Carrol Coates
Binghamton University, SUNY

Georges Corvington
Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Edwidge Danticat
Miami, Florida

Michel DeGraff
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Alex Dupuy
Wesleyan University

Robert Fatton, Jr.
University of Virginia

Leon-François Hoffmann
Princeton University

Laënnec Hurbon
Centre de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris

Michel Laguerre
University of California, Berkeley

Yanick Lahens
Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Christopher McAuley University of California, Santa Barbara

Marie José N’Zengou-Tayo
University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica

Brenda Gayle Plummer University of Wisconsin

Michel-Rolph Trouillot University of Chicago

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