Haiti, History, and the Gods

by Joan Dayan and Colin Dayan

Book Overview

In Haiti, History, and the Gods, Joan Dayan charts the cultural imagination of Haiti not only by reconstructing the island's history but by highlighting ambiguities and complexities that have been ignored. She investigates the confrontational space in which Haiti is created and recreated in fiction and fact, text and ritual, discourse and practice. Dayan's ambitious project is a research tour de force that gives human dimensions to this eighteenth-century...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520213688
• ISBN13: 9780520213685
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"