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ning to snatch away victims from their homes, reinforcing and breaching the dream/wake state.
Before or as the dew forms in the morning, the Tonton disrupt the order of the day. They thus rupture
dew, the formation of water due to heavy moisture in the air, and symbolically speaking, birth. The
ambiguity follows and characterizes most of the victim's chapter-length accounts of their torture.
Duvalier installed himself as a satisfaction that supplanted and usurped the familial. Duvalier's
nickname, Papa Doc, deepens the displaced personal father — for he is a "papa," the child's personal
nickname for father, and he is a doctor, the official/technical figure who ushers life into the world.
Responsible for "giving" children to the world in a public and scientific way, Duvalier serves as both
public official and usurps the private father with his army that offers limitless (imaginary) power on
behalf of his law. Duvalier works in both realms, making members of his nation-state children,
supplanting private fathers with himself as the ultimate law, the ultimate father. Dew Breaker serves
as metonymical extension of Duvalier and Danticat hides Dew Breaker's proper name in the face of his
job, a job serving the bloated name Duvalier. Danticat withholds his name while simultaneously
naming the text after his metonymic role, thus displacing mystery onto the father. The "protagonist"
must therefore be perpetually referred to as the Dew Breaker or as Ka's father. He remains that
"thing," meaningful only in the context of the demand he fulfills: enforcing Duvalier's lawful
lawlessness, otherwise called jouissance.
According to the Lacanian psychoanalytic framework, the personal father gives the name in order
to solve the riddle of the mother (the riddle of procreation, which remains overt in men, but hidden in
women). Importantly, the Dew Breaker's lack of proper name displaces a mystery that should reside
in the space of the mother, but...