Spring 2006
Journal of Haitian Studies, Volume 12, Number 1
Contents
New Diasporic Narratives
Breaking
the Silence: The Fugees and The Score
—George
Lipsitz
Papa,
Patriarchy, and Power: Snapshots of a Good Haitian Girl,
Feminism, & Dyasporic Dreams
—Gina
Athena Ulysse
Haiti Abroad
"Sueño
de Haiti": Danced Identity in Eastern Cuba
—Grete
Viddal
A Tale of Three Graces Lòtbò Dlo
—Roger
E. Savain
Early
Saint Domingan Migration to America and the Attraction
of Philadelphia
—Garvey
F. Lundy
Public Life / Religious Ways
The
Gede in New Orleans: Vodou Ritual in Big Chief Allison
Tootie Montana’s Jazz Funeral
—Richard
Brent Turner
Le
Vodou Haïtien est-il un Humanisme?
—Claudine
Michel
Review Essay
Opportunities
Lost: Notes from the Last Testament: The Struggle for
Haiti, by Michael Deibert; Paradise Lost: Haiti’s
Tumultuous Journey from Pearl of the Caribbean to Third
World Hotspot, by Philippe Girard; Plunging
into Haiti: Clinton, Aristide, and the Defeat of Diplomacy,
by Ralph Pezzullo
—Gerald
Horne
Reviews
F.
Abiola and Simon Gikandi, eds., The Cambridge History
of African and Caribbean Literature, Volumes 1 & 2 (Roberto Strongman)
Patrick Bellegarde-Smith, Fragments of Bone: Neo-African
Religions in a New World (Terry Rey)
David
Lambert, White Creole Culture, Politics, and Identity
during the Age of Abolition (Brenda Gayle Plummer)
Lucía Suárez, The Tears of Hispaniola (Roberto Strongman)
Tatiana K. Wah, Haiti’s Development Through Expatriate
Reconnection: Conditions and Challenges (François
Pierre-Louis)