Throughout Haitian history-from 17th century colonial
Saint-Domingue to 21st century postcolonial Haiti-arguably, the
Afro-Haitian religion of Vodou has been represented as an
"unsettling faith" and a "cultural paradox," as expressed in
various forms and modes of Haitian thought and life including
literature, history, law, politics, painting, music, and art.
Competing voices and conflicting ideas of Vodou have emerged from
each of these cultural symbols and intellectual expressions. The
Vodouist discourse has not only pervaded every aspect of the
Haitian life and experience, it has defined the Haitian cosmology
and worldview. Further, the Vodou faith has had a momentous impact
on the evolution of Haitian intellectual, aesthetic, and literary
imagination; comparatively, Vodou has shaped Haitian social ethics,
sexual and gender identity, and theological discourse such as in
the intellectual works and poetic imagination of Jean Price-Mars,
Dantes Bellegarde, Jacques Roumain, Jacques Stephen Alexis, etc.
Similarly, Vodou has shaped the discourse on the intersections of
memory, trauma, history, collective redemption, and Haitian
diasporic identity in Haitian women's writings such as in the
fiction of Edwidge Danticat, Myriam Chancy, etc. The chapters in
this collection tell a story about the dynamics of the Vodou faith
and the rich ways Vodou has molded the Haitian narrative and
psyche. The contributors of this book examine this constructed
narrative from a multicultural voice that engages critically the
discipline of ethnomusicology, drama, performance, art,
anthropology, ethnography, economics, literature, intellectual
history, philosophy, psychology, sociology, religion, and theology.
Vodou is also studied from multiple theoretical approaches
including queer, feminist theory, critical race theory, Marxism,
postcolonial criticism, postmodernism, and psychoanalysis.
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