Contagious poetics : rumour, ritual and resistance in Zora Neale Hurston's Tell my horse
eScholarship@McGill (McGill) 1999 Lori. McNulty
A strange and enigmatic collection of myths, lyrical storytelling and fantastic folklore, Zora Neale Hurston's Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica details Hurston's Caribbean travels and journey as initiate into Haitian Voudoun. My thesis engages Hurston's contact with Voudoun as a phenomenon of encounter which begins for her with the complex crossing of rumours, secrets, lies,...