12. From Cuban utopianism and Haitian messiah: spiritual provocations of collective catalyst in Jacques Roumain's Masters of the dew / Section 1. Imagining African Faith Systems in the Postmodern World: 2. The gods who speak in many voices, and in none: African novelists on indigenous and colonial religion / Mario A. Chandler. 3. Reading spirit: cosmological considerations in Garfield Linton's Voodoomation:a book of foretelling / Melvin B. Rahming; 4. From "Pythian madness" to an "inner ethic of self-sacrifice": the spirits of Africa and modernity in Du Bois's late writings / James A. Manigault-Bryant; 5. Rituals of remembrance in Zakes Mda's The heart of redness / Erica Still -- Section 2. Integrations of the African and the Western in New World Black Atlantic Writing: 6. The body of vodou: corporeality and the location of gender in Afro-diasporic religion / Roberto Strongman; 7. Hoodoo ladies and high conjurers: new directions for an old archetype / Kameelah L. Martin; 8. From Africa to America by way of the Caribbean: fictionalized histories of theAfrican diasporic slave woman's presence in America in I, Tituba, black witch of Salem and A mercy / Artress Bethany White -- Section 3. African deities and divinations as Forces in New World Black Works: 9. Edwidge Danticat's Breath, eyes, memory: historicizing the Colonial woman / Beauty Bragg; 10. Looking for Olódùmarè: Ishmael Reed and the recovery of Yoruba / Darryl Dickson-Carr; 11. Testing and changing: Esu and Oya "making it do what it do" in The best man / Georgene Bess Montgomery; 12. From Cuban utopianism and Haitian messiah: spiritual provocations of collective catalyst in Jacques Roumain's Masters of the dew / Mario A. Chandler.
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