...Kyrah Malika Daniels Abstract Few conversations with the renowned Haitian novelist Edwidge Danticat have delved into the subject of religion in Haiti and the representations of Vodou in her fiction and nonfiction writing. This interview with Danticat explores her religious upbringing, Vodou...

... to official estimates, 230,000 people lost their lives.' The same number suffered injuries, and over 1.3 million were displaced. Reports of property damage to homes and businesses also reached hundreds of thousands. Churches and peristyles (Vodou temples), art centers, schools, and government ministries were...

... MICHEL UNEQUAL DISTRIBUTION AND OTHER POEMS 161 NOTE 1. GranBrigitis the first female buried in a cemetery. She is the mother of the Gede, spirits oflife, death, and sexuality in the Vodou religion. The Gede are tricksters who are said to have a special relationship with children. 162 MERIDIANS 11:1 ...

... served as editor of the premier academic journal on Haiti, the Journal of Haitian Studies.She is a founding member ofKOSANBA, a scholarly association for the study of Haitian Vodou, and Ka!fou,a journal of comparative and relational ethnic studies. Among other works, she is also co-editor...

... about it” or “we should chat” (pers. comm., August 29, 2021), and, apropos of that invitation, we open the conversation with “Vodou, the Arts, and (Re)Presenting the Divine: A Conversation with Edwidge Danticat,” an especially timely and insightful interview that Kyrah Malika Daniels conducted...

... in Haitian Vodou, Cuban Yoruba, and Bahian Candomble. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. Fanon, Frantz. 1967. Black Skin, White Masks. Translated by Charles Lam Markmann. New York: Grove Press. First published 1952. Hanna, Judith Lynne. 2010. "Dance and Sexuality: Many Moves." The Journal of Sex Research...

..., and for the balance and well-being of the universal forces. It is an understanding of the relationship of adept to Spirit that prevails in many parts of the Afro-Atlantic world. The language of Haitian Vodou speaks perhaps most explicitly to this idea, in that the ones who carry the sacred energies of RACHEL...

... II recognizes the deliberate silencing of her mother’s truth, and her thirst for this information highlights her recognition that the continued withholding of this truth may have consequences for her own life. Like the taint, Aymeric’s association of Cathy with the vodou loa Erzulie Fréda...