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... representations of obeah, a creole religion practiced by enslaved persons in the British Caribbean, arguing that such narratives use religious experience to craft an alternative transnationalism. Works such as William Earle’s 1800 novel Obi; or, The History of Three-Fingered Jack and similar chapbooks, penny...

...-Creole revenge through obeah becomes a metaphor for Sui Sin Far’s own defamiliarizing literary technique inhospitable to patriarchal control even as it ruptures calcifying binaries: white and black, civilized and uncivilized, reformed and unreformed, uplift and betrayal, redemption...

.... ‘‘Soliloquy of a Maroon Chief in Jamaica’’ appeared inSt. Tammany’s Magazine as the third in a series called ‘‘Negro Melodies Of the three texts, only ‘‘Soliloquy’’ purports to come from the theater. The first two, called ‘‘Song of an Obeah Priestess’’ and ‘‘Setting Obi are radi- cally different works...

... gris-gris, medicine bags, Obeah bags, and conjure bags, these amulets serve an equally wide range of purposes and appear across Afro-Atlantic cultural and religious traditions. Typically, bags contain ritual objects such as bone, hair, minerals, plant matter, and sometimes Koranic verses; wearers tie...

..., Toni Wall. “Obeah’s Sensations: Rethinking Religion at the Trans- national Turn,” 715–41. Johnson, Kendall. Review: Boudreau, Henry James’s Narrative Technique: Consciousness, Perception, and Cognition, 196–98. Review: Tucker, The Illustration of the Master: Henry James...

... . Hungerford Amy . 2010 . Postmodern Belief: American Literature and Religion since 1960 . Princeton, NJ : Princeton Univ. Press . Jaudon Toni Wall . 2012 . “ Obeah’s Sensations: Rethinking Religion at the Transnational Turn .” American Literature 84 , no. 4 : 715 – 41 . Joas Hans...

... inoculation controversy in New England; the interaction of plantation medicine, African medical practices, obeah, and slave revolt in the British West Indies; and New England Mohegan minister Samson Occom’s discussions of alcohol and syphilis (32). Wisecup’s consideration of Occom’s 1792 sermon titled “When...

... published in American Literature in 2012 was awarded by the American Literature Section of the MLA to Toni Wall Jaudon, for her essay “Obeah’s Sensations: Rethinking Religion at the Transnational Turn” (84: 4, 715–41). Honorable mentions were awarded to Edlie Wong, for her essay “Comparative...

... through European experience, The Black Vampyre takes place in the Caribbean and claims African roots for the vampirism that it argues has been taken up by “Professors of the Obeah art” (D’Arcy 1819, 32). These roots suggest that D’Arcy’s vampires are close cousins of the zonbi, whom slaves of West...

...: The Spiritualization of American Realism . Chicago : Univ. of Chicago Press . James Reese D. 1932 . Old Drury of Philadelphia: A History of the Philadelphia Stage, 1800–1835 . Philadelphia : Univ. of Pennsylvania Press . Jaudon Toni Wall . 2012 . “ Obeah’s Sensations: Rethinking Religion...

... traditions. Insisting that ‘‘Negro-made church music is dance possible she calls the Sanctifed Church ‘‘a revitalizing element in Negro music and reli- gion53 From Baptist and Pentecostal churches to Mother Catherine’s Spiritualist Temple, rootwork, Obeah, Kumina, Voodoo, Vodou, and elements of Afro...