Writing Vodou into Literature: Exploring Diasporic Religious Symbols and Lore in Zora Neale Hurston’s “Sweat” and Jonah’s Gourd Vine

@article{Jenkins2016WritingVI,
  title={Writing Vodou into Literature: Exploring Diasporic Religious Symbols and Lore in Zora Neale Hurston’s “Sweat” and Jonah’s Gourd Vine},
  author={Tammie Jenkins},
  journal={Journal of Africana Religions},
  year={2016},
  volume={4},
  pages={215 - 224}
}
Abstract: This article explores Zora Neale Hurston’s role in promoting the study of African-derived religions such as Haitian Vodou and New Orleans Hoodoo through her literary works. An anthropologist by trade and an author by choice, Hurston assumed the roles of observer, initiate, and participant as she absorbed the lore and customs associated with these African-derived religious practices from devotees in Haiti and New Orleans. Hurston’s “Sweat” (1926) and Jonah’s Gourd Vine (1933) serve as… 
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