Introduction
Martin Munroand Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw
Hidden in Plain View Evasions, Invasions and Invisible Nations
Edward E. Baptist
St Domingue Refugees in New Orleans Identity and Cultural Influences
Nathalie Dessens
Arguing around Toussaint The Revolutionary in a Postcolonial Frame
Charles Forsdick
The Haitian Revolution and a North American Griot
The Life of Toussaint L’Ouverture by Jacob Lawrence
Carolyn Williams
Reading in the Dark?
Racial Hierarchy and Miscegenation in Heinrich von Kleist’s Die Verlobung in San Domingo
Wendy Sutherland
“Les Créoles Galantes?”
White Women and the Haitian Revolution
Kathleen Gyssels
Revolutionary Acts of Translation Language and Freedom in Guy Endore’s Babouk
William Scott
Letters Lost at Sea
Edwidge Danticat and Orality
Brenna Munro
Being Haitian in New York
Migration and Transnationalism in
Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory
Adlai Murdoch
Dancing at the Border
Cultural Translations and the Writer’s Return
Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw
Hatred Chérie
History, Silence and Animosity in Three Haitian Novels
Martin Munro
Index
Contributors