The Idea and Representation of Vodou in Haitian Imagination
by
Wiebke Beushausen, Anne Brüske, Brandon R. Byrd
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...