Artwork: Marie Laveau, by Holly Sarre.
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Introduction to the Special issue, by Kim Wells & Kameelah Martin Samuel

August 2008

Scholarly Essays

• The Voice Against the Voice: Vodou, Psychoanalysis and Zora Neale Hurston. By Ed Cameron.
• Hearing, Writing, and Reading Voodoo:  Cultural Memory in Jewell Parker Rhodes’s Voodoo Dreams and Voodoo Season. By Tatia Jacobson Jordan.
• Rites as Role Playing in Zora Neale Hurston’s Tell My Horse. By Shiela Ellen Pardee.
• Corrupted by Skin Color: Racist and Misogynist Perceptions of Hoodoo in Maryse Condé’s I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem By Kelli V. Randall
• Hoodoo Ladies and High Conjurers:  New Directions for an Old Archetype. By Kameelah Martin Samuel.
• Voodoo Imagery, Modern Mythology and Female Empowerment in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God. By Brenda R. Smith.
• Spirited Women:  Conjure and Female Empowerment in Jewell Parker Rhodes’ Voodoo Dreams and Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon. By Tara Tuttle.
• Afro-Carribean Voudun and Speculative Fiction in Nalo Hopkinson's Brown Girl in the Ring. By Kim Wells.

Author Interviews

• Women & Voodoo: A Conversation with Jewell Parker Rhodes with Kameelah Martin Samuel.

Fiction

• Cold Paradise. By Joanne C. Hillhouse.
• Portent. By Joanne C. Hillhouse.
• The Wanderlust. By Sarah Bracey White.
• Walking My Sister Home. By Holly Zwalf.
  

Poetry

• Goddess of River, Goddess of Sea. By Kia Hayes.
• Benediction Before the Essences. By Joanne C. Hillhouse.
• Waking The Obeah Within Us : Five Poems. By Althea Romeo-Mark.

Themed Book & Movie Reviews

• In Deep Voodoo, by Stephanie Bond
• Bone Dance: A Fantasy for Technophiles, by Emma Bull.
• Cry Havoc, by Baxter Clare.
• Who Slashed Celanire’s Throat?, by Maryse Condé
• The Afflicted Girls, by Nicole Cooley.
• Brown Girl in the Ring, by Nalo Hopkinson
• The Salt Roads, by Nalo Hopkinson.
• Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys
• Disney Does Voodoo?: The Princess & The Frog.
• The New Orleans Voodoo Tarot & Companion book
  

About the artwork: Erzulie, by Thalia Cook