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Sacred Possessions
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  • Sacred Possessions
  • Written by author Margarite Fernandez Olmos
  • Published by Rutgers University Press, March 1997
  • "A marvelous example of African Diaspora Studies . . . challenges our usual scholarly and everyday articulations of religion, even as it clearly articulates the possibilities and limits of Caribbean African retentions in Vodou, Santeria, and Obeah." --Bar
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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Religious Syncretism and Caribbean Culture1
Vodoun, or the Voice of the Gods13
Women Possessed: Eroticism and Exoticism in the Representation of Woman as Zombie37
"I Am Going to See Where My Oungan Is": The Artistry of a Haitian Vodou Flagmaker59
La Regla de Ocha: The Religous System of Santeria79
From The Sacred Wild to the City: Santeria in Cuba Today101
From Monkey Tales to Cuban Songs: On Signification122
Ifa and Interpretation: An Afro-Caribbean Literary Practice151
Romantic Voodoo: Obeah and British Culture, 1797-1807171
"An Article of Faith": Obeah and Hybrid Identities in Elizabeth Nunez-Harrell's When Rocks Dance195
"Another Poor Devil of a Human Being...": Jean Rhys and the Novel as Obeah216
The Shaman Woman, Resistance, and the Powers of Transformation: A Tribute to Ma Cia in Simone Schwarz-Bart's The Bridge of Beyond231
Sorcerers, She-Devils, and Shipwrecked Women: Writing Religion in French-Caribbean Literature248
Trans-Caribbean Identity and the Fictional World of Mayra Montero267
Glossary283
Works Cited289
Notes on Contributors301
Index305


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