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in At the Crossroads of Many Worlds: Marilyn Houlberg and Arts Patronage in Haiti
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 July 2022
Figure 6 Roland “Roro” Rockville invoking a lwa spirit during a vodou ceremony, Arcahaie, Haiti, c. 2004. Photograph by Marilyn Houlberg. EEPA 2012-004-0430
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 1–17.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Marina Magloire This essay traces the evolution of Katherine Dunham’s relationship with Haiti through archival research and a consideration of her 1969 ethnographic memoir, Island Possessed . It argues that primitivist discourses framing Vodou as an instinctive capacity latent in all people...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 60–78.
Published: 01 July 2022
...Figure 6 Roland “Roro” Rockville invoking a lwa spirit during a vodou ceremony, Arcahaie, Haiti, c. 2004. Photograph by Marilyn Houlberg. EEPA 2012-004-0430 ...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 134–154.
Published: 01 November 2011
...Donald Cosentino A description and analysis of the symbiotic relationship between Vodou-inspired arts and the political, economic, and social calamities that have enveloped Haiti in the last half-century, from the Duvalier dictatorships to the recent election of Michel (“Sweet Micky”) Martelly...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 17–33.
Published: 01 July 2024
... production that decenter both the written word and traditional masculine iconography and instead engage with the embodied, spiritual, and performed. [email protected] © 2024 by Small Axe, Inc. 2024 C. L. R James Vodou Black Jacobins Black feminism Haitian Revolution performance...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 142–150.
Published: 01 October 2008
...Jerry Philogene This essay questions the tensions between the problems of writing about Haitian art and the problem with writing about Haitian art. Within this framework it questions the recurring emphasis of Vodou, specifically considering essays from the catalogue Continental Shifts , which...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 151–164.
Published: 01 October 2008
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priate language, and also that people had indeed responded to higher-order information. Peter
Sutherland’s interview with the artist describes one quite remarkable complex of responses to
the artist’s work. He relates the story of how Daagbo Hounan, the supreme chief of Vodou
in Benin, instantly...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 165–174.
Published: 01 October 2008
... assesses the impact of Vodou on Duval Carrié's imagination and reacts to critiques of the book from scholars of Haitian culture. He calls for a rereading of modern Haitian art history to privilege a wider spectrum of artistic strategies beyond the “Haitian Renaissance.” ©2008 Small Axe Incorporated. All...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 18–36.
Published: 01 March 2016
.... Interestingly, the song repeats word for word a line from the Vodou song to Dessalines with which this section opened: “pays-là chaviré,” the country capsized, or turned upside down—an echo of the turmoil of the immediate postrevolutionary period in Haiti that returned a generation later with the revolution...
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Régine Jean-Charles’s Black Feminist Ethical Reading of Twenty-First-Century Haitian Women’s Fiction
Small Axe (2024) 28 (3 (75)): 195–205.
Published: 01 November 2024
.../and. Jean-Charles’s analyses of the works of Évelyne Trouillot, Yanick Lahens, and Kettly Mars focus on the ways these writers creatively deal with issues of gender, race, color, class, sexuality, Vodou, and nature. Yet despite her recognition of the impact of political crises on their novels’ characters...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 166–176.
Published: 01 November 2012
... Times, 15 January 2010, www.nytimes.com/2010/01/15/
opinion/15brooks.html?pagewanted=print. Millery Polyné summarizes the negative connotations, pointing to the intimate
relationship between Vodou and the disparaging portrayals of Haiti:
Given the off-color...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 62–79.
Published: 01 November 2011
... to sexuality and masculinity. In Le président,
a story about Dao, who believes that practicing Vodou will cure him of the disease, Antonin
7 Dayan, “A Few Stories about Haiti,” 159.
8 Farmer, AIDS and Accusation, xii.
9 Ti Manno’s song “SIDA” is one example of such an outcry...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 94–104.
Published: 01 October 2008
...Barbara Prézeau-Stephenson This article focuses on the visual arts in contemporary Haiti, providing a rare insight into the current creative context. Countering a customary focus on history painting and Vodou-inspired or magical realist work, it explores the evolution of artistic production over...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 72–79.
Published: 01 July 2014
... of Haitian history, need to think intently about alternative types of archives. One of the most powerful and useful of these is the corpus of Vodou song, a rich and extensive set of sung texts that often offer specific historical references alongside a range of interpretive crystallizations of historical...
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): 150–170.
Published: 01 September 2005
... to
be observed visvis any act of faith
One can read in these passages an apology for Haitian Vodou although Firmin does not
address the issue of the Haitian people’s African-derived religion in Th e Equality of the Gérarde
Magloire...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 135–141.
Published: 01 November 2010
... and asked them to tell me little water in a bucket. Although we know
their tales. The final work is published asKanaval: that slaves never wore horns, this is about
Vodou, Politics and Revolution on the Streets of the revolt of the slaves, and we wear the
Haiti (Soul Jazz Publishing, 2010...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 208–210.
Published: 01 November 2012
..., the International Journal of Francophone Studies,
and Mississippi Quarterly.
Elizabeth McAlister is an associate professor of religion, African American studies, and Ameri-
can studies at Wesleyan University. She is author of Rara! Vodou, Power, and Performance
ingion Haiti in theand Americas Its...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 35–50.
Published: 01 March 2019
... on cosmopolitanism and distinctiveness. The author claims that Haitian composers appropriated and commodified lower-class rituals of Vodou to promote an “authentic” Haitian identity and to make appeals to tradition. 25 Within the context of occupation and political-economic instability, this strategy served...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 24–44.
Published: 01 November 2021
... ed. (Santo Domingo: Corripio, 1995), 49. 52 In Las metamorfosis de Makandal Rueda includes the following deities found in Vodou and Vodú: Agüétaroyo (Agwe-Tawoyo or Admiral Agwe; 126); Anaïsa (Anaïsa Pye, Anaïsa Pie Danto, or Saint Anne; 27–31, 46, 130); Atibón-Legba (Legba, Papa Legba...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (2): 209–216.
Published: 01 June 2007
... insurrection of 1791 and the role of Vodou in the revolution. Small Axe Incorporated 2007 Sa Nou Pa We Yo
(The Invisible Ones):
A Reply to Four Readers
Madison Smartt Bell
Ab s t r a c t : This essay responds to four critics who discuss Bell’s trilogy of novels about the Haitian...
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