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From: "mladd" <mladd-AT-gateway.net>
Subject: Re: voodoo
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 10:14:52 -0800


While it doesn't FOCUS on voodoo, Edwidge Danticat's
Breath, Eyes, Memory weaves certain voodoo stories into
the narrative.
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From: Ashok Mathur <amathur-AT-ucalgary.ca>
To: postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
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Date: Monday, March 27, 2000 9:32 AM
Subject: Re: voodoo


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>Nalo Hopkinson's _Brown Girl in the Ring_ is an interesting text. It's
>listed as  science fiction, won the Warner Aspect first novel award in
>97 or 98. It's set in a post-apocalyptic, post-megacity Toronto and the
>main character, Ti-Jeanne (borrowed from Walcott) has to come to terms
>with her power.
>
>> From: Saul Steier
>> Subject: voodoo
>>
>> my wife is teaching a course on Voodoo & Literature next fall and she
>> and i are looking for titles of literary works-novels,plays,short
>> stories,narrative poems etc which focus on voodoo.--from west africa
>> ,brazil, the carribean primarily--but we'll  be happy with
>> recommendations from and about anywhere. thanks in advance
>>
>>
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