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Tell my horse : voodoo and life in Haiti and Jamaica / Zora Neale Hurston ; with a new foreword by Ishmael Reed ; series editor: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- Title
- Tell my horse : voodoo and life in Haiti and Jamaica / Zora Neale Hurston ; with a new foreword by Ishmael Reed ; series editor: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- Author
- Hurston, Zora Neale
- Publication
- New York : Harper Perennial, 2009, c1966.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.
- Description
- viii, 311, 16 p. : ill., ports.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- The author recounts her experiences as an initiate into the voodoo practices of Haiti and Jamaica in the 1930s.
- Series Statement
- Harper Perennial modern classics
- Uniform Title
- Harper Perennial modern classics
- Alternative Title
- Voodoo and life in Haiti and Jamaica
- Subject
- Note
- Includes "P.S. insights, interviews & more"--Cover.
- Originally published in hardcover: J.B. Lippincott, c1938.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-304).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- pt. I. Jamaica. The rooster's nest -- Curry goat -- Hunting the wild hog -- Night song after death -- Women in the Caribbean -- pt. II. Politics and personalities of Haiti. Rebirth of a nation -- The next hundred years -- The black Joan of Arc -- Death of Leconte -- pt. III. Voodoo in Haiti. Voodoo and voodoo gods -- Isle de la Gonave -- Archahaie and what it means -- Zombies -- Secte rouge -- Parlay cheval ou (tell my horse) -- Graveyard dirt and other poisons -- Doctor Reser -- God and the Pintards -- Appendix. Songs of worship to voodoo gods -- Miscellaneous songs.
- ISBN
- 9780061695131
- 0061695130
- OCLC
- 232977323
- SCSB-10801177
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library