Patrick Delices: 4 books
Vodou in Haitian Memory
The Idea and Representation of Vodou in Haitian Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
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...
Between Two Worlds
Jean Price-Mars, Haiti, and Africa
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
Between Two Worlds: Jean Price-Mars, Haiti, and Africa is a special volume on Jean Price-Mars that reassesses the importance of his thought and legacy, and the implications of his ideas in the twenty-first century’s culture of political correctness, the continuing challenge of race and racism, and...
Race, Reality, and Realpolitik
U.S.–Haiti Relations in the Lead Up to the 1915 Occupation
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
The year 2015 marked the centennial of the 1915 United States occupation of Haiti and Haiti’s resistance to that signal event in its history. This study surveys the issues of economics, race, and realpolitik embedded in the political economy of U.S. interactions with Haiti that resulted in occupation....
Vodou in the Haitian Experience
A Black Atlantic Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
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...