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Vodou in Haitian Memory: The Idea and Representation of Vodou in Haitian Imagination

Vodou in Haitian Memory: The Idea and Representation of Vodou in Haitian Imagination

Beushausen, Wiebke
Joseph, Celucien L.
Cleophat, Nixon S.

Hardcover

Caribbean HistoryLiterary CriticismFiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 1498508340
ISBN13: 9781498508346
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: May 12 2016
Pages: 248
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Throughout Haitian history--from 17th century colonial Saint-Domingue to 21st century postcolonial Haiti--arguably, the Afro-Haitian religion of Vodou has been represented as an unsettling faith and a cultural paradox, as expressed in various forms and modes of Haitian thought and life including literature, history, law, politics, painting, music, and art. Competing voices and conflicting ideas of Vodou have emerged from each of these cultural symbols and intellectual expressions. The Vodouist discourse has not only pervaded every aspect of the Haitian life and experience, it has defined the Haitian cosmology and worldview. Further, the Vodou faith has had a momentous impact on the evolution of Haitian intellectual, aesthetic, and literary imagination; comparatively, Vodou has shaped Haitian social ethics, sexual and gender identity, and theological discourse such as in the intellectual works and poetic imagination of Jean Price-Mars, Dantes Bellegarde, Jacques Roumain, Jacques Stephen Alexis, etc. Similarly, Vodou has shaped the discourse on the intersections of memory, trauma, history, collective redemption, and Haitian diasporic identity in Haitian women's writings such as in the fiction of Edwidge Danticat, Myriam Chancy, etc.

The chapters in this collection tell a story about the dynamics of the Vodou faith and the rich ways Vodou has molded the Haitian narrative and psyche. The contributors of this book examine this constructed narrative from a multicultural voice that engages critically the discipline of ethnomusicology, drama, performance, art, anthropology, ethnography, economics, literature, intellectual history, philosophy, psychology, sociology, religion, and theology. Vodou is also studied from multiple theoretical approaches including queer, feminist theory, critical race theory, Marxism, postcolonial criticism, postmodernism, and psychoanalysis.

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