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Ahmed, Sara, 9 “Ala” (Nichols), 21, 114, 127–129 Alexander, M. Jacqui, 10, 26, 43 Alexis, Gérald, 93, 95–96 Allsopp, Jeannette, 69, 81 Alquin, Nicolas, 193n4 “Amazing Grace” (hymn), 39 Amerindians, 130, 133, 152, 197n16; Guyanese, 21, 145–149, 153–165, 172 Anderson, Benedict, 57, 126–127, 158 Angola, 140 Antigua & Barbuda, 173, 177n48 Bahadur, Gaiutra, 18–19 Bahamas, 40, 173; cruise ships registered with, 37; national motto of, 177n48 Bambara, Toni Cade, 191n49 Barbados, 29, 36, 40, 173 Barnes, Natasha, 188n90 Barrow, Christine, 17, 120 Baucom, Ian, 35 Bazile, Dédée (“Défilée la Folle”), 88–91, 99, 102–103, 112–113, 117 Beckles, Hilary, 135, 193n2 Bellaneuse, René, 117 Benítez-Rojo, Antonio, 13, 30, 169, 170, 179n9; on plantation system, 120, 179n10 Berlant, Lauren, 196n100 Betraville, Benoit, 98 Biassou, Georges, 101, 102 Big Drum ceremony (Grenada), 38, 182n60 bisexuality. See LGBT people Black Jacobins (James), 20, 53–56, 61–67, 72–77, 85–87, 169 Boal, Augusto, 1–2, 15, 175n2 boat people, 25, 40–45, 182n67. See also immigrants Bois Caïman ceremony, 84, 92, 192n55; Desruisseau on, 88, 100–102, 112; Hopkinson on, 137, 140 Bolívar, Simón, 187n68 Bonaparte, Pauline, 73–74, 85, 86 Bondye (deity), 98 Bone Woman (Koff), 4, 99 “Bones” (Das), 167 Bonheur, Claire. See Heureuse, MarieClaire Bookers Brothers, McConnell & Co., 147 Boukman, 80, 81, 84, 101–103, 105 Brand, Dionne, 124–125 Brathwaite, Edward Kamau, 25, 123, 124, 170 Braziel, Jana Evans, 90 Brazil, 155, 163 Brown, Karen McCarthy, 183n74 Brown, Kimberly Nichele, 176n19, 191n49 Burnett, Paula, 149–150, 197n2 Burnham, Forbes, 53, 153–154 Bush, George W., 196n103 Busia, Abena, 123 Butler, Judith, 16–17, 38 Cacos Rebellion (1918), 98 cannibalism, 14, 137, 148; Sycorax and, 125–126 Carib people, 14, 48, 49, 197n16 Caribbean Basin Initiative, 7 Carnival cruise ships, 37, 38, 181n56 Carnival festivals, 1, 125 Index 222 Index Carpentier, Alejo, 60, 71; Kingdom of This World by, 20, 54–57, 73–74, 81–86, 169; on male leaders, 92; Marvelous Realism of, 56, 80–81; writings of, 56–57 Cauvin, Marie-Hélène, 23–28, 31, 35–36, 40–45, 50 Cédor, Dieudonne, 93 Centre d’Art (Port-au-Prince), 93, 94, 96 Césaire, Aimé, 56, 57, 60, 61, 92, 94; A Tempest by, 122; The Tragedy of King Christophe by, 20, 54, 56, 67–72, 77–78, 82, 85, 168, 169 Chancy, Myriam J. A., 91–92, 124 Cheyfitz, Eric, 154 Christophe, Henri (king of Haiti), 53, 55, 61, 171; as art patron, 94; burial of, 91; Carpentier on, 81, 84–85; Césaire on, 20, 54, 56, 67–72, 77–78, 82, 85, 168, 169; Vodou and, 78–79 Clark, VèVè, 41, 188n91 Cliff, Michelle, 123, 142 Code Henri (Haiti), 71–72, 187n69 Code Noir (France), 71, 187n69 Collingwood, Luke. See Zong Massacre Collins, Merle, 179n14 Columbus, Christopher, 6 communities of consensus, 8–12 Conquergood, Dwight, 16 creolization, 74, 170, 188n106; hybridization and, 12, 149–150, 152, 177n47; mixed race and, 69–72, 75, 118, 131, 135–139, 145, 150–155, 197n2 cruise ships, 19, 24, 25, 36–40, 48; rape on, 37, 182n49 Cuba, 6, 173; boat people of, 182n67; national motto of, 177n48; 1959 Revolution of, 7, 167 Curaçao, 173 d’Abrantès, Duchesse, 74 D’Aguiar, Fred, 20, 23, 24, 28–35, 50, 99 Dahomey, 127 Damballah (deity), 74, 80, 93 Dandridge, Dorothy, 39 Danticat, Edwidge, 111–113, 170–171; “Children of the Sea” by, 182n66; Krik? Krak! by, 103, 182n66; “Wall of Fire Rising” by, 20, 88, 92, 103–111, 117, 127, 149 Das, Mahadai, 167 Davis, Annalee, 173 Davis, Ossie, 188n100 Dawn, Marpessa, 38, 182n61 Dayan, Joan, 17, 77, 81–82; on Défilée la Folle, 88–91; on Dessalines, 186n48 Declaration of the Rights of Man . . . , 57–58 Défilée la Folle. See Bazile, Dédée Desruisseau, Rose Marie, 89, 92, 111; life of, 93–94; The Ceremony of Bois Caïman by, 88, 100–102, 112; Vodou Ceremony by, 20, 88, 96–102, 116 Dessalines, Jean-Jacques, 52, 57, 62, 65–67; burial of, 88, 89; Carpentier on, 73; children of, 188n98; Vodou and, 83; wife of, 74–76, 90 Doerner, William R., 41–42 Dominica, 199n47 Dominican Republic, 6; immigrants from, 40–42, 173 Douglas, Aaron, 94, 98 DuBois, Laurent, 101 Duval, Jeanne, 131 Duvalier, François “Papa Doc,” 69, 168, 190n32 East Indian immigrants, 18, 132–133, 142, 181n47, 195n53 Edmonson, Belinda, 59...

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