Vodou in Haitian Memory (eBook)

The Idea and Representation of Vodou in Haitian Imagination

Celucien L. Joseph, Nixon S. Cleophat (Herausgeber)

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2016
280 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
9781498508353 (ISBN)

Infos

Vodou in Haitian Memory examines the idea and representation of the Haitian Vodou in Haitin history, art, painting, aesthetics, and culture. Vodou is also studied from multiple theoretical approaches including queer, feminist theory, critical race theory, Marxism, postcolonial criticism, postmodernism, and psychoanalysis.

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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 "e;unsettling faith"e; and a "e;cultural paradox,"e; as expressed in various forms and modes of Haitian thought and life including literature, history, law, politics, painting, music, and art. Competing voices and conflicting ideas of Vodou have emerged from each of these cultural symbols and intellectual expressions. The Vodouist discourse has not only pervaded every aspect of the Haitian life and experience, it has defined the Haitian cosmology and worldview. Further, the Vodou faith has had a momentous impact on the evolution of Haitian intellectual, aesthetic, and literary imagination; comparatively, Vodou has shaped Haitian social ethics, sexual and gender identity, and theological discourse such as in the intellectual works and poetic imagination of Jean Price-Mars, Dantes Bellegarde, Jacques Roumain, Jacques Stephen Alexis, etc. Similarly, Vodou has shaped the discourse on the intersections of memory, trauma, history, collective redemption, and Haitian diasporic identity in Haitian women's writings such as in the fiction of Edwidge Danticat, Myriam Chancy, etc.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.

Autor

Celucien L. Joseph is assistant professor of English at Indian River State CollegeNixon S. Cleophat is assistant professor of religion at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Inhalt

Introduction: Towards New Visions and New Approaches to the Vodou ReligionCelucien L. Joseph, Asselin Charles, Schallum Pierre, and Nixon CleophatPart I: Vodou, Modernity, Resistance, and Haitian Cultural Identity and NationalismChapter One: James Theodore Holly, Fabre Geffrard, and the Construction of a “Civilized’ Haiti” Brandon R. ByrdChapter Two: Oath To Our Ancestors: The Flag of Haiti is Rooted in Vodou Patrick DelicesPart II. Vodou, Vodouphobia, and Haitian Male Intellectuals and Cultural CriticsChapter Three: The Role of Vodou in the Religious Philosophy of Jean Price-MarsCelucien L. JosephChapter Four: Jacques Stephen Alexis, Haitian Vodou and Medicine: Between Cure and CareShallum Pierre Part III. Vodou, Christian Theology, and Collective Redemption Chapter Five: Haitian Vodou: The Ethics of Social Sin & the Praxis of Liberation Nixon S. CleophatChapter Six: Vodouphobia and Afrophobic Discourse in Haitian Thought: An Analysis of Dantès Bellegarde’s Religious Sensibility Celucien L. JosephChapter Seven: Haitian Vodou, a Politico-Realist Theology of Survival: Resistance in the Face of Colonial Violence and Social Suffering Nixon S. Cleophat Part IV. Vodou, Memory, Trauma, and Haitian Women Intellectuals and Cultural CriticsChapter Eight: Vodou Symbolism and “Poto Mitan:” Women in Edwidge Danticat’s WorkMyriam MoïseChapter Nine: Writing from lòt bò dlo: Vodou Aesthetics and Poetics in Edwidge Danticat and Myriam Chancy Anne Brüske and Wiebke BeushausenChapter Ten: The Economics of Vodou: Haitian Women, Entrepreneurship, and Empowerment Crystal Andrea Felima

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.5.2016
• Co-Autor: Wiebke Beushausen, Anne Bruske, Brandon R. Byrd, Asselin Charles, Patrick Delices, Crystal Andrea Felima, Myriam Moise, Shallum Pierre
• Zusatzinfo: 6 Illustrations including: - 6 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Anthologien
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: African traditional religion • Haitian Religion • Vodou • Vodou and Christianity • Vodou and Culture • Vodou and Haiti • Vodou and Law • Vodou and Politics • Vodouphobia
• ISBN-13: 9781498508353 / 9781498508353