Abstract
In Claire of the Sea Light (2013), Edwidge Danticat offers readers a novel anchored in Haitian history and culture. This return to the past is all the more pressing in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake. Indeed, the media coverage of this tragic event brought Haiti visibility, yet it obscured its history prior to what came to be known as “year zero” and stigmatized Haiti as “the Poorest Nation in the Western Hemisphere.”¹ Laurent Dubois rightly points out: “When Haiti appears at all in the media, it registers largely as a place of disaster, poverty, and suffering.”² The dehumanizing phrase,