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Witches, Goddesses, and Angry Spirits: The Politics of Spiritual Liberation in African Diaspora Women's Fiction

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Maha Marouan
2013
Published by: The Ohio State University Press
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Witches, Goddesses and Angry Spirits: The Politics of Spiritual Liberation in African Diaspora Women’s Fiction explores African diaspora religious practices as vehicles for Africana women’s spiritual transformation, using representative fictions by three contemporary writers of the African Americas who compose fresh models of female spirituality: Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994) by Haitian American novelist Edwidge Danticat; Paradise (1998) by African American Nobel laureate Toni Morrison; and I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem (1992) by Guadeloupean author Maryse Condé.

Table of Contents

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Cover

pp. 1-1

Title Page, Copyright

pp. 2-5

Contents

pp. v-vi

Illustrations

pp. vii-viii

Acknowledgments

pp. ix-x

Chapter 1. Introduction: A Theoretical and Thematic Framework

pp. 1-36

Chapter 2. In the Spirit of Erzulie: Vodou and the Reimagining of Haitian Womanhood in Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory

pp. 37-70

Chapter 3. “Thunder, Perfect Mind”: Candomblé, Gnosticism, and the Utopian Impulse in Toni Morrison’s Paradise

pp. 71-102

Chapter 4. Conjuring History: The Meaning of Witchcraft in Maryse Condé’s I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem

pp. 103-152

Chapter 5. Conclusion: The Return of Witches, Goddesses, and Angry Spirits

pp. 153-158

Bibliography

pp. 159-166

Index

pp. 167-180
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