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Vodou en Vogue

Author : Eziaku Nwokocha
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book Vodou en Vogue written by Eziaku Nwokocha and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ethnographic project explores the embodied sartorial practices of Haitian Vodou that are produced and transformed within transnational communities in the African Diaspora. I study how fashion in the religious and social life of Vodou accentuates the importance of aesthetic trends to communal identity formation in the African Diaspora. My primary sites of research are the temples of a Haitian Vodou practitioner named Manbo Maude in Mattapan, Massachusetts and in Jacmel, Haiti. Manbo Maude creates ritual garments and sells them to her practitioners for adornment during religious ceremonies. The production of these ritual garments offers a critical lens through which to discern the adornment practices that are key to serving the spiritual worlds in Haiti and the Diaspora and that reveal a larger economy of fashion and spiritual exchange. I propose the term spiritual vogue as a multisensorial ritual practice to address the performative use of fashion in Manbo Maude's temples to unify practitioners and connect with the spirits. Through the presence of the spirits, dress, touch, movement, and the process of being seen, spiritual vogue is an interactive, multisensorial practice for the practitioners, the spirits, and the audience alike. This project builds on theorists like Sally Promey, Elizabeth Perez, and Linda B. Arthur, who engage with the performativity of gender, race, the multisensorial experience of religion, and religious and material exchanges between Africa and the African Diaspora. I demonstrate how religious fashion addresses the transnational relationships created through faith labor, spirit possession, tattoos, and other embodied manifestations of Vodou. Mambo Maude's temples are investigated as sites of religious innovation that reflect the dynamic relationship between religious ritual, material aesthetics, and spiritual embodiment within African Diasporic religions.

Vodou en Vogue

Author : Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469674025
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Vodou en Vogue written by Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2023-04-18 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Haitian Vodou, spirits impact Black practitioners' everyday lives, tightly connecting the sacred and the secular. As Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha reveals in this richly textured book, that connection is manifest in the dynamic relationship between public religious ceremonies, material aesthetics, bodily adornment, and spirit possession. Nwokocha spent more than a decade observing Vodou ceremonies from Montreal and New York to Miami and Port-au-Prince. She engaged particularly with a Haitian practitioner and former fashion designer, Manbo Maude, who presided over Vodou temples in Mattapan, Massachusetts, and Jacmel, Haiti. With vivid description and nuanced analysis, Nwokocha shows how Manbo Maude's use of dress and her production of ritual garments are key to serving Black gods and illuminate a larger transnational economy of fashion and spiritual exchange. This innovative book centers on fashion and other forms of self-presentation, yet it draws together many strands of thought and practice, showing how religion is a multisensorial experience of engagement with what the gods want and demand from worshippers. Nwokocha's ethnographic work will challenge and enrich readers' understandings not only of Vodou and its place in Black religious experience but also of religion's entanglements with gender and sexuality, race, and the material and spiritual realms.

Vodou en Vogue

Author : Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Vodou en Vogue written by Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

From Douglass to Duvalier

Author : Millery Polyné
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813059062
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book From Douglass to Duvalier written by Millery Polyné and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2010-06-13 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haiti has long been both a source of immense pride--because of the Haitian Revolution--and of profound disappointment--because of the unshakable realities of poverty, political instability, and violence--to the black diasporic imagination. Charting the long history of these multiple meanings is the focus of Millery Polyne's rich and critical transnational history of U.S. African Americans and Haitians. Stretching from the thoughts and words of American intellectuals such as Frederick Douglass, Robert Moton, and Claude Barnett to the Civil Rights era, Polyne's temporal scope is breathtaking. But just as impressive is the thematic range of the work, which carefully examines the political, economic, and cultural relations between U.S. African Americans and Haitians. From Douglass to Duvalier examines the creative and critical ways U.S. African Americans and Haitians engaged the idealized tenets of Pan Americanism--mutual cooperation, egalitarianism, and nonintervention between nation-states--in order to strengthen Haiti's social, economic, and political growth and stability. The depth of Polyne's research allows him to speak confidently about the convoluted ways that these groups have viewed modernization, "uplift," and racial unity, as well as the shifting meanings and importance of the concepts over time.

Journal of Haitian Studies

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Journal of Haitian Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Envisioning Black Feminist Voodoo Aesthetics

Author : Kameelah L. Martin
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498523293
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Envisioning Black Feminist Voodoo Aesthetics written by Kameelah L. Martin and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the twenty-first century, American popular culture increasingly makes visible the performance of African spirituality by black women. Disney’s Princess and the Frog and Pirates of the Caribbean franchise are two notable examples. The reliance on the black priestess of African-derived religion as an archetype, however, has a much longer history steeped in the colonial othering of Haitian Vodou and American imperialist fantasies about so-called ‘black magic’. Within this cinematic study, Martin unravels how religious autonomy impacts the identity, function, and perception of Africana women in the American popular imagination. Martin interrogates seventy-five years of American film representations of black women engaged in conjure, hoodoo, obeah, or Voodoo to discern what happens when race, gender, and African spirituality collide. She develops the framework of Voodoo aesthetics, or the inscription of African cosmologies on the black female body, as the theoretical lens through which to scrutinize black female religious performance in film. Martin places the genre of film in conversation with black feminist/womanist criticism, offering an interdisciplinary approach to film analysis. Positioning the black priestess as another iteration of Patricia Hill Collins’ notion of controlling images, Martin theorizes whether film functions as a safe space for a racial and gendered embodiment in the performance of African diasporic religion. Approaching the close reading of eight signature films from a black female spectatorship, Martin works chronologically to express the trajectory of the black priestess as cinematic motif over the last century of filmmaking. Conceptually, Martin recalibrates the scholarship on black women and representation by distinctly centering black women as ritual specialists and Black Atlantic spirituality on the silver screen.

English-Haitian Creole Bilingual Dictionary

Author : Albert Valdman
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 153201600X
Total Pages : 1207 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book English-Haitian Creole Bilingual Dictionary written by Albert Valdman and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2017-04-06 with total page 1207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haitian Creole (HC) is spoken by approximately 11,000,000 persons in Haiti and in diaspora communities in the United States and throughout the Caribbean. Thus, it is of great utility to Anglophone professionals engaged in various activities—medical, social, educational, welfare— in these regions. As the most widely spoken and best described creole language, a knowledge of its vocabulary is of interest and utility to scholars in a variety of disciplines. The English-Haitian Creole Bilingual Dictionary (EHCBD) aims to assist anglophone users in constructing written and oral discourse in HC; it also will aid HC speakers to translate from English to their language. As the most elaborate and extensive linguistic tool available, it contains about 30 000 individual entries, many of which have multiple senses and include subentries, multiword phrases or idioms. The distinguishing feature of the EHCBD is the inclusion of translated sentence-length illustrative examples that provide important information on usage.

Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou

Author : Donald Cosentino
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou written by Donald Cosentino and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This abundantly illustrated anthology brings together sixteen essays by artists, scholars and ritual experts who examine the sacred arts of Haitian Vodou from multiple perspectives. Among the many topics covered are the ten major Vodou divinities: Vodou's roots in the Fon and Kongo kingdoms of Africa and its transformation in the experiences of slavery, and the encounter with European spiritual systems; Vodou praxis, including its bodily and communal disciplines, the cult of St. James Major (Ogou), and the cult of twins.In the final section, essays by Elizabeth McAlister, Patrick Polk, Tina Girouard, and Randall Morris look at Vodou arts and artists, Oleyant, and the legacy of ironworker Georges Liautaud.The Envoi, by Donald J.Cosentino, is devoted to the Gedes, spirits of death and regeneration.

Vodou Nation

Author : Michael Largey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vodou Nation written by Michael Largey and published by . This book was released on 2006-05 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the Haitian musical tradition is probably best known for the Vodou-inspired roots music that helped topple the two-generation Duvalier dictatorship, the nation’s troubled history of civil unrest and its tangled relationship with the United States is more intensely experienced through its art music, which combines French and German elements of classical music with Haiti's indigenous folk music. Vodou Nation examines art music by Haitian and African American composers who were inspired by Haiti’s history as a nation created by slave revolt. Around the time of the United States’s occupation of Haiti in 1915, African American composers began to incorporate Vodou-inspired musical idioms to showcase black artistry and protest white oppression. Together with Haitian musicians, these composers helped create what Michael Largey calls the “Vodou Nation,” an ideal vision of Haiti that championed its African-based culture as a bulwark against America’s imperialism. Highlighting the contributions of many Haitian and African American composers who wrote music that brought rhythms and melodies of the Vodou ceremony to local and international audiences, Vodou Nation sheds light on a black cosmopolitan musical tradition that was deeply rooted in Haitian culture and politics.

African American Culture

Author : Omari L. Dyson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440862443
Total Pages : 1141 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book African American Culture written by Omari L. Dyson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page 1141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering everything from sports to art, religion, music, and entrepreneurship, this book documents the vast array of African American cultural expressions and discusses their impact on the culture of the United States. According to the latest census data, less than 13 percent of the U.S. population identifies as African American; African Americans are still very much a minority group. Yet African American cultural expression and strong influences from African American culture are common across mainstream American culture—in music, the arts, and entertainment; in education and religion; in sports; and in politics and business. African American Culture: An Encyclopedia of People, Traditions, and Customs covers virtually every aspect of African American cultural expression, addressing subject matter that ranges from how African culture was preserved during slavery hundreds of years ago to the richness and complexity of African American culture in the post-Obama era. The most comprehensive reference work on African American culture to date, the multivolume set covers such topics as black contributions to literature and the arts, music and entertainment, religion, and professional sports. It also provides coverage of less-commonly addressed subjects, such as African American fashion practices and beauty culture, the development of jazz music across different eras, and African American business.

Horror Noire

Author : Robin R. Means Coleman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136942939
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book Horror Noire written by Robin R. Means Coleman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From King Kong to Candyman, the boundary-pushing genre of the horror film has always been a site for provocative explorations of race in American popular culture. In Horror Noire: Blacks in American Horror Films from 1890's to Present, Robin R. Means Coleman traces the history of notable characterizations of blackness in horror cinema, and examines key levels of black participation on screen and behind the camera. She argues that horror offers a representational space for black people to challenge the more negative, or racist, images seen in other media outlets, and to portray greater diversity within the concept of blackness itself. Horror Noire presents a unique social history of blacks in America through changing images in horror films. Throughout the text, the reader is encouraged to unpack the genre’s racialized imagery, as well as the narratives that make up popular culture’s commentary on race. Offering a comprehensive chronological survey of the genre, this book addresses a full range of black horror films, including mainstream Hollywood fare, as well as art-house films, Blaxploitation films, direct-to-DVD films, and the emerging U.S./hip-hop culture-inspired Nigerian "Nollywood" Black horror films. Horror Noire is, thus, essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how fears and anxieties about race and race relations are made manifest, and often challenged, on the silver screen.

Geographies of the Haitian Diaspora

Author : Regine O. Jackson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136807888
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book Geographies of the Haitian Diaspora written by Regine O. Jackson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-06-27 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers the full sweep of Haitian community invention and recreation in a multitude of national territories, with an eye toward the "place" factors that shape the everyday lives of Haitian migrants. Regine O. Jackson brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to explore how Haitian communities differ across time and place, as well as how migrants adjust to new economic, political and racial realities. The volume includes descriptive ethnographies of Haitians in 19th century Jamaica, eastern Cuba, Detroit, the Dominican Republic, Guadeloupe, Paris, and Boston, and innovative scholarly work on non-geographic sites of Haitian community building. The most important question addressed here is not whether the places described represent typical or exceptional Haitian diasporic communities, but how, why and to what effect do Haitians in particular places use diaspora as a signifier. By examining the diversity (and sameness) of the Haitian experience in diaspora, Geographies of the Haitian Diaspora asks how we might situate community in view of increased scholarly attention to transnational processes.

Voodoo

Author : Kelly Wand
Publisher : Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780737713145
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Voodoo written by Kelly Wand and published by Greenhaven Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2004 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voodoo, or Haitian "black magic," has been the subject of countless horror films, but can its practitioners actually reanimate dead corpses as zombies? This anthology examines the debate over whether zombies actually exist, or if voodoo is simply a means to exploit the ignorant and superstitious.

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary

Author : Merriam-Webster Inc.
Publisher : Merriam-Webster
ISBN 13 : 9780877798095
Total Pages : 1696 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary written by Merriam-Webster Inc. and published by Merriam-Webster. This book was released on 2004 with total page 1696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains 165,000 entries, more than 225,000 definitions, and over 40,000 usage examples and includes biographical and geographical sections.

Haiti

Author : Paul Clammer
Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides
ISBN 13 : 1841624152
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (416 download)

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Download or read book Haiti written by Paul Clammer and published by Bradt Travel Guides. This book was released on 2012 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only dedicated guidebook to Haiti, covering everything from culture and history to living and working in Haiti.

Coloniality at Large

Author : Mabel Moraña
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822341697
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (416 download)

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Download or read book Coloniality at Large written by Mabel Moraña and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A state-of-the-art anthology of postcolonial theory and practice in the Latin American context.

"Visualizing Haiti in U.S. Culture, 1910?950 "

Author : LindsayJ. Twa
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351537407
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book "Visualizing Haiti in U.S. Culture, 1910?950 " written by LindsayJ. Twa and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the late 1910s through the 1950s, particularly, the Caribbean nation of Haiti drew the attention and imaginations of many key U.S. artists, yet curiously, while significant studies have been published on Haiti's history and inter-American exchanges, none analyze visual representations with any depth. The author calls not only on the methodologies of art history, but also on the interdisciplinary eye of visual culture studies, anthropology, literary theory, and tourism studies to examine the fine arts in relation to popular arts, media, social beliefs, and institutional structures. Twa emphasizes close visual readings of photographs, illustrations, paintings, and theatre. Extensive textual and archival research also supports her visual analysis, such as scrutinizing the personal papers of this study's artists, writers, and intellectuals. Among the literary and artistic luminaries of the twentieth century that Twa includes in her discussion are Richmond Barth?Eldzier Cortor, Aaron Douglas, Katherine Dunham, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Alexander King, Jacob Lawrence, James Weldon Johnson, Lo?Mailou Jones, Eugene O?Neill, and William Edouard Scott. Twa argues that their choice of Haiti as subject matter was a highly charged decision by these American artists to use their artwork to engage racial, social, and political issues.