Special Bicentennial Issue on the Arts
Guest Editors: Edwidge Danticat & LeGrace Benson
Editors' Notes
On Writing & Significant Others
Art is Not Optional
Art & Invocation
Yon Moso Twal Nan Bwa (A Piece of Cloth on Wood): The Drapo Vodou in Myths of Origin
“To Carry the Dance of the People Beyond”: Jean Léon Destiné, Lavinia Williams and Danse Folklorique Haïtienne
Ulrick Jean-Pierre’s Cayman Wood Ceremony
Music & Meaning
A Feminine Voice in Contemporary Haitian Roman Catholic Religious Music: The Songs of Petite Sœur Emmanuelle Victor, P.S.I.
One and One Makes Three: Wisdom in the Rhythmic Organization of Vodou Drumming
Transcribing Tradition: "Rèl Pou Ayiti"
—Marlène Racine-Toussaint & Lois Wilcken
Writing Resistance
An Aborted Miracle: The Significance and Aftermath of the Haitian Revolution in Frankétienne’s H’éros-chimères & Miraculeuse
Amour, Douleur, Folie (Love, Sorrow, Madness): State Violence and Post-Duvalierist Revenants in Dany Laferrière’s Le Cri des oiseaux fous
Constructing Identity
Brothers Under the Skin: Richmond Barthe in Haiti
Hector Hyppolite : sa peinture profane
Remarks on Theatre and Film in Haiti
The Citadelle and Cap-Haïtien: Photo Essay
Vernacular Architecture: Photographs of Ti-kay of Departement du Nord
—Kelly “Tisson” Pierre & LeGrace Benson
Struggles of Life & Death: The Gede
Rising Sun: Gede’s Drama of Death and Rebirth in Brooklyn, New York
The Gede: Vignettes of Life, Death, the Dead and Rebirth
Gede on Grand Rue: Some Lines of Inquiry to Follow
Research Notes
Interview with Hërsza Barjon
Quand les Dieux parlent aux hommes Hërsza Barjon les entend
African Diaspora Culture
Annotated Bibliography of Books and Articles with Haitian Art
Book Reviews
Consuming the Caribbean: From Arawaks to Zombies, by Mimi Sheller
—Review by Margaret M. Olsen
Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and the Culture of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, by Sibylle Fischer
—Review by David Roediger
Haiti: The Breached Citadel, by Patrick Bellegarde-Smith
—Review by Gerald Horne
This Land is Our Land: Immigrants and Power in Miami, by Alex Stepick, et al.
—Review by Milton Vickerman
A Proslavery Foreign Policy: Haitian-American Relations During the Early Republic, by Tim Matthewson
—Review by Gerald Horne
Vaudou: Exhibition Catalog, by Michel Le Bois
—Review by LeGrace Benson
Film Festival Jakmel
—Review by Tequila Minsky
Paj Kreyòl Ayisyen: The Descent of the Lwa Exhibition
—Review by Woje E. Saven