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Author Dayan, Colin, author.

Title Haiti, history, and the gods / Joan Dayan
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1995

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 339 pages) : illustrations, map
Contents Rituals of history -- Fictions of Haiti -- Last days of Saint-Domingue -- Gothic Americas
Summary 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 and recreated in fiction and fact, text and ritual, discourse and practice
Notes Reprint. Originally published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 1995
"A centennial book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-327) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Nationalism -- Haiti -- Religious aspects
Social psychology and literature -- Haiti -- History
HISTORY -- General.
HISTORY -- Latin America -- General.
Civilization -- Philosophy
Nationalism -- Religious aspects
Religion
Social psychology and literature
SUBJECT Haiti -- Civilization -- Philosophy
Haiti -- Religion
Subject Haiti
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780520920965
0520920961
0585176469
9780585176468
0520089006
9780520089006