Makandal Exhibit: Introduction

…identified or characterized as any number of things: a poisoner, a healer or physician, a maroon, and a Vodou priest; this exhibit traces his transformation over time and geography from…

Further Reading and Related Projects

…pp. 1-20. Related Projects Just Teach One Duncan Faherty (Queens College & CUNY Graduate Center) and Ed White (Tulane University) Just Teach One is a digital project producing digital editions…

Makandal and West African Knowledge

Makandal and West African Knowledge Origins – Who is Makandal? There are any number of spellings of his name in use across the texts, including Macandal, Macandale, Mackendal, Makandale, and…

Carnival and Mass

…edited by Tim Barringer and Gillian Forrester and Barbaro Martinez-Ruiz. New Haven: Yale Center for British Art, (2019). https://www-aaeportal-com.ezproxy.neu.edu/?id=-18629.   Images Cited: Crowley, Daniel J. “The Traditional Masques of Carnival.”…

Carnival and Song

…have looked at during this time. Citation: Hans Sloane, A voyage to the islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, . . . and islands of America. (London, 1707), vol. 1, pp. l-li….

Key Text: Bug-Jargal by Victor Hugo

…reach of Haiti, as the ongoing center of Euro-colonial faiture,” and at once, brings readers to “a point of departure for a deeper and longer French-Creole-Spanish presence in trans-American literary…

A Guide to the Exhibit:

…sources are not written or drawn by the same author or from the same island, the sources all relate to the broad idea of opposition, diaspora, rebellion, power dynamic, and…