“Vodou … The Soul of the People,” an excerpt from Jacques Stéphen Alexis’ “The Musician Trees”
Callaloo: Vol. 27, No. 3, Summer 2004
Published by the Johns Hopkins University Press
English translation by Carrol F. Coates
… The night was marked by…
In his analysis of the personified natural phenomena, Professor Carrol F. Coates explains that:
Merely to place these natural phenomena in a semiological category or “mythical” or “allegorical” characters is to miss the point. This is rather, pure…