Special Issue on Vodou and Créolité
Guest Editor: Roberto Strongman
Assistant Guest Editors: Paul Humphrey & Eric Heuser
Détour d'Haïti: A Prologue
Introduction
An Interview with Robert H. McCormick, Jr.
Défense et Illustration du Vodou
From "Voodooism" to "Vodou": Changing a US Library of Congress Subject Heading
Replacing the Term "Voodoo" with "Vodou": A Proposal
Media Alerts
—Patrick Bellegarde-Smith and Kate Ramsey
Mama Lola's Triplets, Haiti's Sacred Ground, and Vodou's Quintessential Lesson
La couleur de l'aube de Yanick Lahens : cette horrible béance obscure
"Children" of the Gods: Filming the Private Rituals of Haitian Vodou
'Chevauchés des dieux' : Mambos et Hassides dans l'oeuvre schwarz-bartienne
Haiti within the Archipelago
Servants Turned Masters: Carlos Esteban Deive's Viento Negro, Bosque del Caimán and the future of Hispaniola
Gods, Gender, and Nation: Building an Alternative Concept of Nation in Four Novels by Mayra Montero
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
Magical Realism
Dans le sillage d'Alejo Carpentier et de García Márquez: le réalisme magique dans Eau de Café de Raphaël Confiant
A Heart of Kindness: Nalo Hopkinson's Brown Girl in the Ring
Haitian Theatre
Le théâtre populaire selon Franck Fouché: éclatement dramaturgique et résistance haïtienne
An Introduction to The Blue of the Island by Evelyne Trouillot
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
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