Introduction. Historical Segue 1 1804-1822 : Saturn's Children. 'We are all Greeks': President Boyer's Letter to Greek Revolutionaries (1822)
The 'Lake of Lies': Émeric Bergeaud's Stella (1859)
On Haiti and Black Egypt: Anténor Firmin's De l'Égalité des Races Humaines (1885)
Historical Segue 2 From 19th c. Nationalism to 20th c. Populism. A jumble of names: Fernand Hibbert's Romulus (1908)
Cleopatras and Sapphos of the Haitian Countryside: Jean Price-Mars, Ansi Parla l'Oncle (1928)
Sophocles becomes a Haitian Writer: Félix Morisseau-Leroy, Antigòn en Creole (1953)
Historical Segue 3 Duvalierism and the Haitian Diaspora. Antigòn in West Africa: Morisseau-Leroy's Wa Kreyon (1978)
'As though Picasso were Tagging with Spraypaint': Dany Laferrière's Le cri des oiseaux fous (2000)
The revolt against silence: Edwidge Danticat's The Farming of Bones (1998) with Julia Nelson Hawkins
Coda.