Research Catalog

Title

Vodou in the Haitian experience : a Black Atlantic perspective / edited by Celucien L. Joseph and Nixon S. Cleophat.

Publication

• Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2016]
• ©2016

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Details

Additional Authors

• Joseph, Celucien L.
• Cleophat, Nixon S.

Description

xii, 276 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

• "Studies the connections and relationships between Vodou and African traditional religions, such as Yoruba religion and Egyptian religion. ... 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." --back cover.
• "One glaring lacuna in studies of Haitian Vodou is the scarcity of works exploring the connection between the religion and its main roots, traditional Yoruba religion. Discussions of Vodou very often seem to present the religion in vacuo, as a sui generis phenomenon that arose in Saint-Domingue and evolved in Haiti, with no antecedents. What is sorely needed then is more comparative studies of Haitian Vodou that would examine its connections to traditional Yoruba religion and thus illuminate certain aspects of its mythology, belief system, practices, and rituals. This book seeks to bridge these gaps. Vodou in the Haitian Experience studies comparatively the connections and relationships between Vodou and African traditional religions such as Yoruba religion and Egyptian religion. Such studies might enhance our understanding of the religion, and the connections between Africa and its Diaspora through shared religious patterns and practices. The general reader should be mindful of the transnational and transcultural perspectives of Vodou, as well as the cultural, socio-economic, and political context which gave birth to different visions and ideas of Vodou. 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." -- Publisher's description

Subjects

• Haiti
• Africa
• Blacks > Haiti > Social life and customs
• Africa > Religion
• Haiti > Religion > African influences
• Vodou in art
• Religion
• Vodou in literature
• Vodou > Haiti

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-262) and index.

Contents

Introduction: Contemporary and transnational Vodou, and the African perspective / Celucien L. Joseph and Nixon S. Cleophat -- Roots / routes / rasin: rural Vodou and the sacred tree as metaphor for the multiplicity of styles in Mizik rasin and folkloric dance in Haiti and the diaspora / Ann E. Mazzocca -- Circling the cosmogram: Vodou aesthetics, feminism, and queer art in the second-generation Haitian dyaspora / Kantara Souffrant -- Speaking the past: Vodou ceremonies and little Haiti on the hill in Seven Guitars / Barbara Brewster Lewis -- Decoding dress: Vodou, cloth and colonial resistance in pre- and post-revolutionary Haiti / Charlotte Hammond -- The African origin of Haitian Vodou: from the Nile Valley to the Haitian valleys / Patrick Delices -- The Vodun has killed them: new world/old world vodun, Creolité, and the alter-Renaissance / Bronwyn Mills -- The vibratory art of Haiti: a Yoruba heritage born by the Vodou poetics / Patricia Marie-Emmanuelle Donatien -- Ethnographic interpretations of traditional African religious practices and Haitian Vodou ceremonial rites in Zora Neale Hurston's Tell My Horse and Maya Deren's Divine Horsemen / Tammie Jenkins -- Oversouls and egregores in Vodou: esoteric meaning in land and ritual / Mambo Vye Zo Komande La Menfo DaGinen (Patricia D. Scheu) -- Arabian religion, Islam, and Haitian Vodou: the "recent African single-origin hypothesis" and the comparison of world religions / Benjamin Hebblethwaite and Michel Weber.

Call Number

Sc E 17-553

ISBN

• 9781498508315
• 1498508316

LCCN

2016001263

OCLC

934706261

Title

Vodou in the Haitian experience : a Black Atlantic perspective / edited by Celucien L. Joseph and Nixon S. Cleophat.

Publisher

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2016]

Copyright Date

©2016

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-262) and index.

Added Author

Joseph, Celucien L., editor.

Cleophat, Nixon S., editor.

Research Call Number

Sc E 17-553