Acknowledgments
Marlene L. Daut is an assistant professor of English and Cultural Studies in the School of Arts and Humanities at the Claremont Graduate University. She is also an affiliate of the Intercollegiate Department of Africana Studies at The Claremont Colleges. Her essays on Haitian and American literature have appeared or are forthcoming in Small Axe, South Atlantic Review, Nineteenth-Century Literature, and Comparative Literature.