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Zora Neale Hurston spent decades as a student of hoodoo and voodoo.Transcribing the tales she heard on her travels in the American South and West Indies, she published her findings in the anthropological folklore collections Mules and Men (1935) and Go Tell My Horse (1938). Valerie Levy’s chapter explores Hurston’s unique Gothic vision as it surfaces in stories and tales that are rife with incantations of African obea, grotesque zombies, and Christian deities, all illuminating a cross-pollination of cultures merging with the hoodoo traditions of New Orleans and the voodoo rituals of Haiti. The mores that Hurston describes not only speak to a certain way of talking, thinking, and creating, but also represent worlds that humanized historically-marginalized groups in a manner that is as beautiful as it is haunting. |
