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02314aam a2200373Ii 4500 001 7946624881AC11E8845ADF1997128E48 003 SILO 005 20180707011039 008 180227s2018 nyu 000 f eng d 020 $a 0998463418 020 $a 9780998463414 035 $a (OCoLC)1025328488 040 $a PWC $b eng $c PWC $d OCLCO $d YDX $d CDX $d FEM $d OCLCF $d OCLCQ $d OCP $d OCLCO $d IGA $d OCL $d IOU $d SILO 043 $a n-usu-- $a n-us--- $a n-usu-- 050 4 $a PS3611.A7849 $b H68 2018 082 04 $a FIC $b KASAI 100 1 $a Kasai, Kirsten Imani, $e author. 245 14 $a The house of Erzulie / $c Kirsten Imani Kasai. 264 1 $a Albany, New York : $b Shade Mountain Press, $c [2018] 300 $a 274 pages ; $c 23 cm 520 $a The house of Erzulie tells the eerily intertwined stories of an ill-fated young couple in the 1850s and the troubled historian who discovers their writings in the present day. Emilie St. Ange, the daughter of a Creole slaveowning family in Louisiana, rebels against her parents' values by embracing spiritualism, women's rights, and the abolition of slavery. Isidore, her biracial, French-born husband, is an educated man who is horrified by the brutalities of plantation life and becomes unhinged by an obsessive affair with a notorious New Orleans voodou practitioner. Emilie's and Isidore's letters and journals are interspersed with sections narrated by Lydia Mueller, an architectural historian whose fragile mental health further deteriorates as she reads. Imbued with a sense of the uncanny and the surreal, The house of Erzulie also alludes to the very real horrors of slavery, and makes a significant contribution to the literature of the U.S. South, particularly the tradition of the African-American Gothic novel. 650 0 $a Plantation life $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Spiritualism $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Vodou $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Creoles $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Mental illness $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Creoles $z Louisiana $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Slaves $z United States $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Plantation life $z Southern States $x History $y 19th century $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210406020013.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7946624881AC11E8845ADF1997128E48 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search