Istwa across the water : Haitian history, memory, and the cultural imagination / Toni Pressley-Sanon.

Drawing on the belief system of Vodou, this project is anchored by three theoretical concepts: tidalectics, a term for the repetitive back-and-forth movement of the ocean, symbolizing ritual, balance, and cyclical unity; Marasa, or twinning, a principle of Vodou in which fragmented parts strive for...

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Main Author: Pressley-Sanon, Toni (Author)
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Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2017]
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505 0 |a A note on spelling -- Groundings: tidalectics, Marasa, and Istwa -- The changing same: bok{o}fíó across the sea -- Of Boci{o}, Bo, Cakatú, Zonbi, Nkisi, and Paket Kongo -- Boci{o}, Nkisi, Legba, Ogun, and Ghede across the water -- Tidalectical dishonor -- Epilogue: re-suturing or joining the parts to the whole. 
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