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Article: Haiti, History, and the Gods.(Brief Article)
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- The Antioch Review
- Article date:
- June 22, 1996
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1996 Antioch Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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This is a remarkable book by a deeply knowledgeable scholar, combining her historical research and analysis with personal, intimate knowledge of Haiti, using many sources not available in English, as well as her own ethnographic research. The resulting picture is complex and highly original. Here Haitian French-language fiction and the evidence of rituals, symbols, and beliefs of vodoun help to fill the gaps left in the historical record. By attending to the role of gender and sexuality, race, and class in the colonial and revolutionary periods, Dayan sheds light on the present as well. She thus provides a view of Haitian history as seen, experienced, reworked into ritual ...
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