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Darroch F (2019) "Ou libéré?" Vodou and Haiti: Speaking the Language of Resistance, Remembrance and Freedom in the Writing of Edwidge Danticat. In: Dedenbach-Salazar Saenz S (ed.) Translating Wor(l)ds: Christianity Across Cultural Borders. Collectanea Instituti Anthropos, 51. Baden-Baden: Academia Verlag, pp. 283-304. https://doi.org/10.5771/9783896657954-283
Abstract
This paper analyses how vodou is embedded with in the history of Haiti; it is central to its language, literatures, and narratives of the revolution. Referring to the writer Edwidge Danticat and scholar of religion, Brent Plate, it engages with the ways in which a new language of religiosity, which prioritises the senses, can be creatively transcribed. This language of religiosity is in contrast to a European and Christian use of the term ‘religion’ which has a tendency to segregate the political and the religious, the spiritual and the material, the body and the mind. The language of religiosity used here is instead guided by a female historiography of Haiti and the goddess Erzulie.
Journal
Collectanea Instituti Anthropos
Status | Published |
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Title of series | Collectanea Instituti Anthropos |
Number in series | 51 |
Publication date | 31/12/2019 |
Publication date online | 01/11/2019 |
URL | http://hdl.handle.net/1893/30247 |
Publisher | Academia Verlag |
Place of publication | Baden-Baden |
ISSN | 0257-9774 |
ISBN | 978-3-89665-794-7 |
eISBN | 978-3-89665-795-4 |
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Lecturer, Literature and Languages - Division