Edwidge Danticat
- Award winning author
- Family fled Haiti
- Left herself and her brother behind
- Came to the US and was reunited with family and two new siblings as a teenager
- Barnard and Brown education
- French and Creative Writing
- Master’s thesis
- First book
- Breath, Eyes, Memory
- Followed the story of a girl leaving Haiti
- Often writes about Haiti
- Non-fiction and fiction
Haiti’s History
- Timeline:
- 1804: Independence
- Jean-Jacques Dessalines declares himself emperor
- 1806: Dessalines’ assassination
- Racial tensions
- Black north, mulatto (mixed) south
- 1818: Pierre Boyer “unified” while excluding blacks from power
- 1915: US invasion
- 1934: US withdrawal
- “Papa Doc” Duvalier seizes power
- Voodoo doctor
- Elected president
- 1964: Duvalier becomes dictator
- 1971: Baby Doc (jean claude) takes over
- 1986: Baby Doc flees
- 1988: President Manigat gets ousted in a coup
- Civilian government under military control
- 1990: Haiti’s first free and peaceful polls
- Jean-Bertrand Aristide elected
- 1991: Aristide ousted by another coup
- 1994: US oversees Aristide’s reinstatement
- 1995: UN peacekeepers replace US military
- Rene Preval elected
- 1997-99 Political deadlock, new government named
- Preval begins ruling by decree
- 2000: Aristide re-elected
- 2001: Armed men kill police officers, attempt to overthrow government
- Multiple coup attempts
- 2002: Haiti is a full member of Caribbean Community
- 2003: Voodoo recognised as religion
- 2004: Floods leave 2,000 missing or dead
- 3,000 killed in another flood and tropical story
- Gangs begin to rise
- 2005: Rebel leader killed
- Hurricane Dennis
- 2006: New general elections
- Rene Preval
- Tropical storms in 2008, Earthquake in 2010, 2016
- Toussaint L’ouverture
- Leader of Haitian Revolution
- Army of black slaves
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