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Center for Black Studies
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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
Chryss Yost
University of California, Santa Barbara

Editorial Board Members
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

Paulette Poujol-Oriol

Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Michel-Rolph Trouillot
University of Chicago

The Journal of Haitian Studies

Spring 2005
Volume 11 Number 1

 

Contents
Health & Social Issues

James D. Fett Two Women...Two Worlds: Responses to Peripartum Cardiomyopathy
Anne Hatløy Life as a Child Domestic Worker in Haiti
Lucía M. Suárez The Restavec Condition: Jean-Robert Cadet's Disclosure

Artistic Influences

Jayne R. Boisvert Images of Gé Rouge in Étienne's La Femme muette and in Desquiron's Les Chemins de Loco-Miroir
Steve Puig Quelques romans de l'exil post-duvaliéristes: le retour impossible
Barbara Nesin The Influence of Native American and Africn Encounters in Haitian Art


Repression & Resistance

Henry F. Carey The Third US Intervention and Haiti's Paramilitary Predicament
Kum Kum Bhavnani & John Foran "The Grammar of a Film is a Political Act": Reflections on the Life of Jean Léopold Dominique

Writing History, Writing Trauma

Cherie Meacham Traumatic Realism in the Fiction of Edwidge Danticat
Patti M. Marxsen The Map Within: Place, Displacement, and the Long Shadow of History in the Work of Edwidge Danticat

Research Notes

Kettly P. Mars Présentation de «Kasalé»: Organisée par l'Alliance Française d'Haïti
Leslie Péan La volupté de l'ecriture de Kettly P. Mars
E.G. Sideris & A. A. Konsta A Letter from Jean-Pierre Boyer to Greek Revolutionaries

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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