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Center for Black Studies
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Editor
Claudine Michel
University of California, Santa Barbara

Associate Editors 
Patrick Bellegarde-Smith
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
LeGrace Benson
Arts of Haiti Research Project, Ithaca, New York

Book Review Editor
Flore Zéphir

University of Missouri-Columbia

Managing Editor
Chryss Yost
University of California, Santa Barbara

Editorial Board Members
Erika Bourguignon
Ohio State University
Karen McCarthy Brown

Drew University
Myriam Chancy
Louisiana State University
Carrol Coates

Binghamton University, SUNY
Georges Corvington
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Edwidge Danticat

Miami, Florida
Michel DeGraff
Massachusetts Institute
of Technology
Alex Dupuy

Wesleyan University
Robert Fatton, Jr.
University of Virginia

Leon-François Hoffmann

Princeton University
Laënnec Hurbon
Centre de Recherche
Scientifique (CNRS), Paris
Michel Laguerre
University of California, Berkeley
Yanick Lahens
Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Christopher McAuley
University of California, Santa Barbara

Marie José N’Zengou-Tayo
University of
the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica

Brenda Gayle Plummer
University of Wisconsin

Paulette Poujol-Oriol

Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Michel-Rolph Trouillot
University of Chicago

The Journal of Haitian Studies

Fall 2004
Volume 10 Number 2

 

Contents
Editors' Notes

Edwidge Danticat On Writing & Significant Others
LeGrace Benson Art is Not Optional

Art & Invocation

Anna Wexler Yon Moso Twal Nan Bwa (A Piece of Cloth on Wood): The Drapo Vodou in Myths of Origin
Millery Polyné “To Carry the Dance of the People Beyond”: Jean Léon Destiné, Lavinia Williams and Danse Folklorique Haïtienne
Marc A. Christophe Ulrick Jean-Pierre’s Cayman Wood Ceremony


Music & Meaning

Martha Estep O’Brien A Feminine Voice in Contemporary Haitian Roman Catholic Religious Music: The Songs of Petite Sœur Emmanuelle Victor, P.S.I.
Lois Wilcken One and One Makes Three: Wisdom in the Rhythmic Organization of Vodou Drumming
Marlène Racine-Toussaint & Lois Wilcken Transcribing Tradition: "Rèl Pou Ayiti"

Writing Resistance

Rachel Douglas An Aborted Miracle: The Significance and Aftermath of the Haitian Revolution in Frankétienne’s H’éros-chimères & Miraculeuse
Jana Braziel Amour, Douleur, Folie (Love, Sorrow, Madness): State Violence and Post-Duvalierist Revenants in Dany Laferrière’s Le Cri des oiseaux fous

Constructing Identity

Margaret Rose Vendryes Brothers Under the Skin: Richmond Barthe in Haiti
Gérald Alexis Hector Hyppolite : sa peinture profane
Patrick Rameau Remarks on Theatre and Film in Haiti
Douglas Henry Daniels The Citadelle and Cap-Haïtien: Photo Essay
Kelly “Tisson” Pierre & LeGrace Benson Vernacular Architecture: Photographs of Ti-kay of Departement du Nord

Struggles of Life & Death: The Gede

Lois Wilcken Rising Sun: Gede’s Drama of Death and Rebirth in Brooklyn, New York
Patrick Bellegarde-Smith The Gede: Vignettes of Life, Death, the Dead and Rebirth
LeGrace Benson Gede on Grand Rue: Some Lines of Inquiry to Follow

Research Notes

Claudine Michel Interview with Hërsza Barjon
Paulette Poujol-Oriol Quand les Dieux parlent aux hommes Hërsza Barjon les entend
Carole Boyce-Davies African Diaspora Culture
Bob Corbett Annotated Bibliography of Books and Articles with Haitian Art

Reviews
Mimi Sheller, Consuming the Caribbean: From Arawaks to Zombies (Margaret M. Olsen)

Sibylle Fischer, Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and the Culture of Slavery in the Age of Revolution (David Roediger)

Patrick Bellegarde-Smith, Haiti: The Breached Citadel (Gerald Horne)

Alex Stepick, et al, This Land is Our Land: Immigrants and Power in Miami (Milton Vickerman)

Tim Matthewson, A Proslavery Foreign Policy: Haitian-American Relations During the Early Republic (Gerald Horne)

Michel Le Bois, Vaudou: Exhibition Catalog (LeGrace Benson)

Film Festival Jakmel (Tequila Minsky)

Paj Kreyòl Ayisyen: The Descent of the Lwa Exhibition (Woje E. Saven)

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