Marassa and the Nothingness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Marassa and the Nothingness write by Alanna Lockward. This book was released on 2016-02-12. Marassa and the Nothingness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Nothing happens. When someone dies, everything stops, and there is only death. With the passage of time, one begins to forget a little; the nothingness transforms itself into something less heavy. But in the end, its hard lightness reminds us that it was once there, and it only weighs on us a little less. Just as I had felt it the first time, the scent was like the shadow of a phantom forest. Juniper, sandalwood, oak, cedar, mahogany, guava, and rosewood aroused an aromatic trail leading to shelves filled with incense, crystals, and candles of every color and shape. Among the petals of a lotus, a floating Buddha diligently yet discreetly blessed the placid atmosphere of the shop. Reflecting in the door of the small office, a spherical prism resembling a baby’s mobile formed a round rainbow. Cassandra opened the door and the psychedelic circle projected on the center of her back like the natural prolongation of an impenetrable equation; she lit a white candle and turned on her laptop almost at the same time.
Mapping Hispaniola
Mapping Hispaniola - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mapping Hispaniola write by Megan Jeanette Myers. This book was released on 2019-08-16. Mapping Hispaniola available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Because of their respective histories of colonization and independence, the Spanish-speaking Dominican Republic has developed into the largest economy of the Caribbean, while Haiti, occupying the western side of their shared island of Hispaniola, has become one of the poorest countries in the Americas. While some scholars have pointed to such disparities as definitive of the island’s literature, Megan Jeanette Myers challenges this reduction by considering how certain literary texts confront the dominant and, at times, exaggerated anti-Haitian Dominican ideology. Myers examines the antagonistic portrayal of the two nations—from the anti-Haitian rhetoric of the intellectual elites of Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo’s rule to the writings of Julia Alvarez, Junot Díaz, and others of the Haitian diaspora—endeavoring to reposition Haiti on the literary map of the Dominican Republic and beyond. Focusing on representations of the Haitian-Dominican dynamic that veer from the dominant history, Mapping Hispaniola disrupts the "magnification" and repetition of a Dominican anti-Haitian narrative.
The Shadows of Starpoint Mountain
The Shadows of Starpoint Mountain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Shadows of Starpoint Mountain write by Bill Albert. This book was released on 2009-11-15. The Shadows of Starpoint Mountain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As the legend of Gallif's heroics grows so does her number of enemies. She learned a terrible secret inside Starpoint Mountain and goes to the Giant Lords for help. But the Giant Lords have been in power for centuries and consider any challenge to their supremacy a threat that must be removed. Now Gallif must fight to defend the truth and discovers a thousand years of burning racial hatred is not a candle to be easily extinguished.
Memory and the Archival Turn in Caribbean Literature and Culture
Memory and the Archival Turn in Caribbean Literature and Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Memory and the Archival Turn in Caribbean Literature and Culture write by Marta Fernández Campa. This book was released on 2023-04-15. Memory and the Archival Turn in Caribbean Literature and Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book discusses an archival turn in the work of contemporary Caribbean writers and visual artists across linguistic locations and whose work engages critically with various historical narratives and colonial and postcolonial records. This refiguration opens a critical space and retells stories and histories previously occluded in/by those records, and in spaces of the public sphere. Through poetics and aesthetics of fragmentation largely influenced by music and popular culture, their work encourages contrapuntal ways of (re)thinking histories; ways that interrogate the influence of colonial narratives in processes of silencing but also centre the knowledge found in oral histories and other forms of artistic archives outside official repositories. Discussing literature and selected artwork by artists from Britain, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Puerto Rico, and Trinidad and Tobago, Memory and the Archival Turn in Caribbean Literature and Culture demonstrates the historiographical significance of artistic and cultural production.
Vodou, Voodoo, and Hoodoo
Vodou, Voodoo, and Hoodoo - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Vodou, Voodoo, and Hoodoo write by Sebastien de la Croix. This book was released on 2024-07-08. Vodou, Voodoo, and Hoodoo available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dispel the Misconceptions & Discover the Truth About Afro-Caribbean Magic Diamantino Fernandes Trindade, one of the most renowned spiritualist authors in Brazil, and Sebastien de la Croix, an initiated Houngan (Vodou priest), lift the shroud of mystery surrounding Haitian Vodou and North American Voodoo. Trindade and de la Croix introduce you to these distinct spiritualities and how they are connected to Hoodoo, an African American tradition that incorporates Voodoo, Indigenous traditions, spiritism, and European folklore. Vodou, Voodoo, and Hoodoo provides a variety of simple spells that require no initiation and support many aspects of contemporary life. You'll also explore the life of Voodoo Queen Marie Laveau, a famous practitioner who was ahead of her time. Featuring deities, recipes, prayers, and more, this book gives you a genuine look at Afro-Caribbean magic.
