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Tell my horse : voodoo and life in Haiti and Jamaica / Zora Neale Hurston ; with a new foreword by Ishmael Reed ; series editor: Henry Louis Gates.
Author
Hurston, Zora Neale
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Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
First Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition
Published/Created
New York : Harper Perennial, 2009.
©1990
Description
viii, 311, 16 pages : illustrations, music ; 21 cm
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BL2490 .H88 2009
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Subject(s)
Vodou
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Haiti
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Vodou
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Jamaica
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Haiti
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Description and travel
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Jamaica
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Description and travel
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Writer of foreword
Reed, Ishmael, 1938-
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Editor
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.
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Series
Harper Perennial modern classics
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Summary note
The author recounts her experiences as an initiate into the voodoo practices of Haiti and Jamaica in the 1930s.
Notes
"With an afterword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr."--Cover.
"P.S. insights, interviews & more ..."--Cover.
Originally published in hardcover: J.B. Lippincott, ©1938. First Perennial Library edition published, 1990.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-304).
Contents
pt. I. Jamaica. The rooster's nest
Curry goat
Hunting the wild hog
Night song after death
Women in the Caribbean
pt. II. Politics and personalities of Haiti. Rebirth of a nation
The next hundred years
The black Joan of Arc
Death of Leconte
pt. III. Voodoo in Haiti. Voodoo and voodoo gods
Isle de la Gonave
Archahaie and what it means
Zombies
Secte rouge
Parlay cheval ou (tell my horse)
Graveyard dirt and other poisons
Doctor Reser
God and the Pintards
Appendix. Songs of worship to voodoo gods
Miscellaneous songs.
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Voodoo and life in Haiti and Jamaica
ISBN
9780061695131 ((pbk.))
0061695130 ((pbk.))
OCLC
232977323
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