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Charting the cultural imagination of Haiti, this text argues for the recognition of both vodou rituals and narrative fictions as repositories of history. The book gives human dimensions to the 18th-century French colony and provides a template for understanding the Haiti of toda…
In 'Haiti, History, and the Gods', Joan Dayan charts the cultural imagination of Haiti not only by reconstructing the island's history but by highlighting ambiguities and complexities that have been ignored. She investigates the confrontational space in which Haiti is created an…