The Butterfly’s Way : Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States Copyright © 2001 by Edwidge Danticat All rights reserved. “You and Me against the world,” by Martine Bury, copyright © 1999, is reprinted by permission of the author. “Restavèk” is from Restavec: From Haitian Slave Child to Middle-Class American by Jean-Robert Cadet, copyright 1998, reprinted by permission of the University of Texas Press. “The Million Man March” by Anthony Calypso, copyright © 1998, first appeared as “The Chicken Bone Express” under the pen name, Tonven Bolewo, in Tea for One and appears here by permission of the author. “Present Past Future” by Marc Christophe is adapted from the poem “Present Passe Futur” which appeared in Le Pain De L’Exile, copyright © 1988, and is reprinted by permission of the author. “A Cage of Words” by Joel Dreyfuss, copyright © 1999, first appeared in The Haitian Times and is reprinted by permission of the author. “Another Ode to Salt” by Danielle Legros Georges first appeared in The Caribbean Writer, Volume 9, copyright © 1995, and is reprinted by permission of the author. “America, We Are Here” by Dany Laferrière, copyright © 1987, first appeared in his book Why Must a Black Writer Write About Sex? (David Homel translator, Coach House Press, Toronto) and appears here by permission of the author. “Homelands” by MarieHélène Laforest first appeared in slightly different form in Diasporic Encounters (Liguori Editore, Naples, January 2000) and is reprinted by permission of the author. “Made Outside” by Francie Latour first appeared in a slightly different form in The Virginian-Pilot, copyright © 1995, and is reprinted by permission of the author. “Something in the Water . . . Reflections of a People’s Journey” by Nikòl Payen first appeared in The Crab Orchard Review, copyright © 1997, and is reprinted by permission of the author. “The White Wife” by Gary Pierre-Pierre first appeared in Essence Magazine, copyright © 1998, and is reprinted by permission of the author. “Haiti: A Memory Journey” by Assoto Saint is from Spells of a Voodoo Doll, copyright © 1996, and appears by permission of Michele Karlsberg, Estate of Assoto Saint. “Looking for Columbus” is from Silencing the Past by Michel-Rolph Trouillot, copyright © 1996 by Michel-Rolph Trouillot, reprinted by permission of Beacon Press, Boston. “Do Something for Your Soul, Go to Haiti,” by Babette Wainwright, copyright © 1999, first appeared in slightly different form as “Fencing in the People” in Sheperd Express, April 15, 1999 and is reprinted by permission of the author. All other contributions first appear here by permission of their respective authors, copyright © 2001.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The butterfly’s way : voices from the Haitian dyaspora [sic] in the United States / edited by Edwidge Danticat. p. cm. ISBN-13: 978-1-56947-218-7 1. American literature—Haitian American authors. 2. American literature—20th century. 3. Haitian Americans—Literary collections. 4. Danticat, Edwidge, 1969– PS508.H33 B88 2001 810.9’97294’0904—dc21
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