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Benítez-Rojo, Antonio, 37–38, 57, 143, 144, 187n31 Bernabé, Jean, 36–37 Black Holocaust, 157–58, 161 Borges, Jorge Luis, 39 Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 58, 62–63, Brathwaite, Edward Kamau, 48; Middle Passages, 48 Brontë, Charlotte, 106; Jane Eyre, 106 Brown, John, 59 Butler, Octavia, 19 Cabrera, Lydia, 29, 30 Campeche, José, 52, 56, 57, 64, 67–71, 183n27; El Niño Juan Pantaleón Avilés, 52, 67 Carbonell, Bettina Messias, 7 Carpentier, Alejo, 12, 13, 19, 52, 54, 56, 72, 74–77, 128, 135–39, 148,181n4, 187nn22, 30; Explosion in a Cathedral, 12, 15, 52–56, 72, 74–75, 77, 187n29, 32; The Kingdom of this World, 12, 16, 74, 128, 135–39, 143, 144, 148, 187n25, 188n41 Castro, Fidel, 4, 35, 42, 43, 78, 187n29 Césaire, Aimé, 4; La tragedie du roi Christophe, 4; Toussaint L’Ouverture, 4 Chamoiseau, Patrick, 12, 27, 28, 30–31, 34, 36–38, 41, 49, 52, 79, 114, 153, 159, 160, 166, 168; L’esclave vieil homme et le molosse, 12, 16, 27–32, 34, 36, 38, 40–41, 43, 45, 46, 48–50, 79, 108, 114, 153, 159, 166, 168, 169; Solibo magnifique , 36; Texaco 34, 36, 166–67 Chirac, Jacques, 1–3, 49 Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum, 80–81 abolition: fiction, 30, 38, 63; novel 28, 35 African Burial Ground, 157–58, 166, 189n18 Afrocentrism, 85, 91, 102, 143, 158, 171n18 Alegría, Ricardo, 21–24, 27–28, 56, 178n3 Alpers, Svetlana, 6 America’s Black Holocaust Museum, 9, 11, 86, 87, 184n16 Anderson, Benedict, 24 Appadurai, Arjun, 86 Appiah, Kwame Anthony, 95 Arenas, Reinaldo, 12, 27–31, 34–35, 38–43, 49, 52, 54, 62, 63, 68, 72, 75, 76–77, 79, 107; Graveyard of the Angels, 12, 16, 28–32, 34–36, 38–43, 48–50, 52–56, 62, 63, 68, 72, 77–78, 79, 107–8 Bal, Mieke, 2, 26 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 7 Barbados National Museum and Historical Society, 48 Barnet, Miguel, 4; Biografía de un cimarr ón, 4 Barnwell, Ysaye, 170 Baudrillard, Jean, 30 belatedness, 20, 32, 60–61 Belcher, Michael, 22, 33, 72 Bell, Madison Smartt, 16, 51; All Souls Rising, 51 Benjamin, Walter, 123 Index 204 Index Quilombo, 13 diorama, 10, 13, 17, 79–84, 85–89, 91, 94–95, 97, 98, 124, 152, 155; dioramic effects, 82; literary diorama, 80, 83–88, 92, 94–96, 98, 99, 100 “Disneyfication,” 11 Douglass, Frederick, 18, 46 Duany, Jorge, 23 Elmina Castle, 92, 125–27, 134 Espeland, Pamela, 170 fantastic, 16, 19, 41, 136, 145, 181n14 Fortune’s Bones: The Manumission Requiem, 168 Gates, Jr., Henry Louis, 61 Glissant, Édouard, 2, 4, 28, 29, 35, 36, 38, 40, 177n3, 168; L’intention poétique , 35; La folie celat, 35; Monsieur Toussaint, 4, 51 Gone with the Wind, 105–6, 107 Goya, Francisco de, 30, 52, 55, 57, 72, 74–78; Disasters of War, 52, 56, 75–76; Fernando VII with Royal Mantle, 76–77 Great Plains Black Museum, 63 Haitian Revolution, 4, 16, 51, 56, 74, 76, 77, 128–29, 136–39, 144–46, 148, 150 Haley, Alex, 13; Roots, 13, 15, 106 Hartman, Saidiya, 126, 133–34 Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 29, 44, 45; The Scarlet Letter, 29, 45 Hirsch, Marianne, 32 historical novels, 4, 7, 8, 13, 15–16, 20, 24, 31, 45, 48, 49, 51–53, 86, 88, 91, 105, 107, 108, 139, 152, 155; postmodern historical novels, 1, 5, 15–19, 25, 26, 27, 29, 33, 79, 107, 108, 123–24, 153, 155, 159, 175 Hogarth, William, 52, 56, 57, 64–67, 75; A Harlot’s Progress, 52, 64–65 Holocaust, 9, 124, 151, 156, 161, 172 Holloway, Karla F. C., 154 “homeplace,” 106, 110, 114, 117, 118–19 hooks, bell, 106 hyperreal, 16, 30, 82 imagined community, 24, 29 International Museum of Slavery, 81 Christophe, Henri, 4, 128–32, 134–38, 141, 145–47, 150 Cinnamon Bay Plantation, 101 Clarke, Austin, 48–49 Cliff, Michelle, 12, 52, 54, 59, 62–63, 66; Abeng, 59; Free Enterprise, 12, 16, 52–56, 59, 62–63, 66 Clifford, James, 82–83, 86, 89 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 60 Coll y Toste, Cayetano, 25–26 Colonial Williamsburg, 103–5, 113, 124 Conner Prairie Living History Museum, 104–5, 113, 124 Committee for the Remembrance of Slavery , 1, 2, 49, Condé, Maryse, 1, 2, 12, 13, 27–29, 31, 32, 34, 43–46, 48–49, 52, 79, 80, 82, 84–92, 94, 97-99, 113, 153, 158, 159, 161, 165, 66, 170...

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