Haiti, History, and the Gods
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Univ of California Pr
- Publish date: 03/01/1998
Description:
Charting the cultural imagination of Haiti, Joan Dayan argues for the recognition of both vodou rituals and narrative fictions as repositories of history. A research tour de force, this work gives human dimensions to the eighteenth-century French colony and provides a template for understanding the Haiti of today.
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"A voluminous, interdisciplinary treatment of diverse aspects of Haiti's history and culture....An original and provocative discussion of several topics, among them the Vaudou religion, colonial society in St. Domingue, the depiction of women, the mythification of Haiti, the rehabilitation of the novelist Marie Chauvet and much, much more". -- J. M. Dash, Slavery and Abolition
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