The Butterflys Way Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States
In four sections-Childhood, Migration, First Generation, and Return-the contributors to this anthology write powerfully, often hauntingly, of their lives in Haiti and the United States. Jean-Robert Cadet's description of his Haitian childhood as a restavec-a child slave-in Port-au-Prince contrasts with Dany Laferriere's account of a ten-year-old boy and his beloved grandmother in Petit-Gove. We read of Marie Helene Laforest's realization that while she was white in Haiti, in the United States she is black. Patricia Benoit tells us of a Haitian woman refugee in a detention center who has a simple need for a red dress-dignity. The reaction of a man who has married the woman he loves is the theme of Gary Pierre-Pierre's "The White Wife"; the feeling of alienation is explored in "Made Outside" by Francie Latour. The frustration of trying to help those who have remained in Haiti and of the do-gooders who do more for themselves than the Haitians is described in Babette Wainwright's "Do...Author: Laferrière Dany, Danticat Edwidge, Christophe Marc, Hyppolite Joanne, Cadet Jean-Robert, Laforest Marie-Helene, Benoit Jean-Pierre, Saint Assotto, Sanon Barbara, Georges Danielle Legros, Dreyfuss Joel, Benoit Patricia, Payen Nikol, Ketsia Marie, Theodore-Pharel, Heurtelou Maude, Pierre-Pierre Garry, Bury Martine, Ulysse Katia, Phipps Marilene, Etienne Phebus, Latour Francie, Calypso Anthony, Neptune Miriam, Casimir Leslie, Gregoire Annie, Cantave Sophia, Pierre Marie Nadine, Alexandre Sandy, Chassagne Leslie, Sylvain Patrick, Sylvain Patrick, Trouillot Michel-Rolph, Wainwright Babette, Ulysse Gina, Chancy Myriam J. A.
Genre: Modern prose
Number of pages: 234
Reading time: 3 h. 54 min.
Formats: FB2, EPUB, PDF
