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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Celucien L. Joseph and Nixon S. Cleophat - Contributions by Wiebke Beushausen; Anne Brüske; Brandon R. Byrd; Asselin Charles; Patrick Delices; Crystal Andrea Felima; Myriam Moïse and Shallum Pierre Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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...
List of contents
Introduction: Towards New Visions and New Approaches to the Vodou Religion
Celucien L. Joseph, Asselin Charles, Schallum Pierre, and Nixon Cleophat
Part I: Vodou, Modernity, Resistance, and Haitian Cultural Identity and Nationalism
Chapter One: James Theodore Holly, Fabre Geffrard, and the Construction of a "Civilized' Haiti"
Brandon R. Byrd
Chapter Two: Oath To Our Ancestors: The Flag of Haiti is Rooted in Vodou
Patrick Delices
Part II. Vodou, Vodouphobia, and Haitian Male Intellectuals and Cultural Critics
Chapter Three: The Role of Vodou in the Religious Philosophy of Jean Price-Mars
Celucien L. Joseph
Chapter Four: Jacques Stephen Alexis, Haitian Vodou and Medicine: Between Cure and Care
Shallum Pierre
Part III. Vodou, Christian Theology, and Collective Redemption
Chapter Five: Haitian Vodou: The Ethics of Social Sin & the Praxis of Liberation
Nixon S. Cleophat
Chapter Six: Vodouphobia and Afrophobic Discourse in Haitian Thought: An Analysis of Dantès Bellegarde's Religious
About the author
Celucien L. Joseph currently serves as professor and chair of the English Department at San Jacinto College and visiting professor of theology at Emmaus University in Haiti. His most recent books include Theologizing in Black: On Africana Theological Ethics and Anthropology (2020), and Theological Education and Christian Scholarship for Human Flourishing: Hermeneutics, Knowledge, and Multiculturalism (2022).Nixon S. Cleophat is assistant professor of religion at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
