Sacred Possessions

MARGARITE FERNANDEZ OLMOS is the author or coeditor of many books, including The Latino Reader: An American Literary Tradition from 1542 to the Present, U.S. Latino Literature: A Critical Guide for Students and Teachers, Healing Cultures: Art and Religion as Curative Practices in the Caribbean and Its Diaspora, Sacred Possessions: Vodou, SanterÍa, Obeah, and the Caribbean, and Creole Religions of the Caribbean: An Introduction from Vodou and SanterÍa to Obeah and Espiritismo.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Religious Syncretism and Caribbean CultureVodoun, or the Voice of the GodsWomen Possessed: Eroticism and Exoticism in the Representation of Woman as Zombie"I Am Going to See Where My Oungan Is": The Artistry of a Haitian Vodou FlagmakerLa Regla de Ocha: The Religious System of Santeria From The Sacred Wild to the City: Santeria in Cuba TodayFrom Monkey Tales to Cuban Songs: On Signification Ifa and Interpretation: An Afro-Caribbean Literary PracticeRomantic Voodoo: Obeah and British Culture, 1797-1807"An Article of Faith": Obeah and Hybrid Identities in Elizabeth Nunez-Harrell's When Rocks Dance"Another Poor Devil of a Human Being...": Jean Rhys and the Novel as ObeahThe Shaman Woman, Resistance, and the Powers of Transformation: A Tribute to Ma Cia in Simone Schwarz-Bart's The Bridge of BeyondSorcerers, She-Devils, and Shipwrecked Women: Writing Religion in French-Caribbean LiteratureTrans-Caribbean Identity and the Fictional World of Mayra MonteroGlossaryWorks CitedNotes on ContributorsIndex