Special Issue on Vodou and Créolité
Guest Editor: Roberto Strongman
Assistant Guest Editors: Paul Humphrey & Eric Heuser

Détour d'Haïti: A Prologue

Roberto Strongman

Introduction

An Interview with Robert H. McCormick, Jr.

Roberto Strongman

Défense et Illustration du Vodou

From "Voodooism" to "Vodou": Changing a US Library of Congress Subject Heading

Kate Ramsey

Replacing the Term "Voodoo" with "Vodou": A Proposal

Leslie G. Desmangles

Media Alerts

Patrick Bellegarde-Smith and Kate Ramsey

Mama Lola's Triplets, Haiti's Sacred Ground, and Vodou's Quintessential Lesson

Claudine Michel

La couleur de l'aube de Yanick Lahens : cette horrible béance obscure

Marie-Agnès Sourieau

"Children" of the Gods: Filming the Private Rituals of Haitian Vodou

Charlotte Hammond

'Chevauchés des dieux' : Mambos et Hassides dans l'oeuvre schwarz-bartienne

Kathleen Gyssels

Haiti within the Archipelago

Servants Turned Masters: Carlos Esteban Deive's Viento Negro, Bosque del Caimán and the future of Hispaniola

Maria Cristina Fumagalli

Gods, Gender, and Nation: Building an Alternative Concept of Nation in Four Novels by Mayra Montero

Paul Humphrey

De isla en isla: diálogo entre tres poetas afro-caribeñas

Prisca Agustoni de A. Pereira

(Auto)Biographical Victories: An Analysis of the Culinary and the Literary in Maryse Condé's Victoire, les saveurs et les mots

Sarah Mosher

Magical Realism

Dans le sillage d'Alejo Carpentier et de García Márquez: le réalisme magique dans Eau de Café de Raphaël Confiant

Arzu Etensel Ildem

A Heart of Kindness: Nalo Hopkinson's Brown Girl in the Ring

Laura Salvini

Haitian Theatre

Le théâtre populaire selon Franck Fouché: éclatement dramaturgique et résistance haïtienne

Mélissa Simard

An Introduction to The Blue of the Island by Evelyne Trouillot

Robert H. McCormick, Jr.

Le Bleu de L'île (The Blue of the Island)

Evelyne Trouillot, translated by Robert H. McCormick, Jr.

Research Notes

Creolist Michel DeGraff: A Profile of Commitment, Advocacy, Excellence, and Hope

Flore Zéphir

 

Book Reviews

Trading Places: Colonization and Slavery in Eighteenth-Century French Culture, by Madeleine Dobie

—Review by Alessandra Benedicty

The Spirits and the Law: Vodou and Power in Haiti, by Kate Ramsey

—Review by Celucien L. Joseph

Cric? Crac! : Fables de La Fontaine racontées par un montagnard haïtien et transcrites en vers créoles, by George Sylvain

—Review by Fatoumata Seck

Sex and the Citizen: Interrogating the Caribbean, edited by Faith Smith

—Review by Kersuze Simeon-Jones