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Vodoun, or the voice of the gods / Joan Dayan -- Women possessed : eroticism and exoticism in the representation of woman as zombie / Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert -- "I am going to see where my oungan is" : the artistry of a Haitian Vodou flagmaker / Anna Wexler -- Le regla de ocha : the religious system of Santería / Miguel Barnet -- From The sacred wild to the city : Santería in Cuba today / Héctor Delgado -- From monkey tales to Cuban songs : on signification / José Piedra -- Ifá and interpretation : an Afro-Caribbean literary practice / Eugenio Matibag -- Romantic Voodoo : Obeah and British culture, 1797-1807 / Alan Richardson -- "An article of faith" : Obeah and hybrid identities in Elizabeth Nunez-Harrell's When rocks dance / Karla Y.E. Frye -- "Another poor devil of a human being--" : Jean Rhys and the novel as Obeah / Elaine Savory -- The shaman woman, resistance, and the powers of transformation : a tribute to Ma Cia in Simone Schwarz-Bart's The bridge of beyond / Brinda Mehta -- Sorcerers, she-devils, and shipwrecked women : writing religion in French-Caribbean literature / Ivette Romero-Cesareo -- Trans-Caribbean identity and the fictional world of Mayra Montero / Margarite Fernández Olmos. |
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