Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti
9 best books like Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti (Maya Deren): The Wretched of the Earth, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays, Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things, The Pillow Book, The Passion According to G.H., Beyond the Dark Veil: Post Mortem & Mourning Photography from the Thanatos Archive, Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism, Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn (Comparative Studies in Religion and Society), Critique of Everyday Life
The Wretched of the Earth
| Author | Frantz Fanon |
| ISBN | 0802141323 |
A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Frantz Fanon was one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history. Fanon's masterwork is a classic alongside Edward Said's Orientalism...
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
One of the most influential works of this century, this is a crucial exposition of existentialist thought. Influenced by works such as Don Juan, and the novels of Kafka, these essays begin with a meditation on suicide: the question of living or not living in an absurd universe devoid of order or meaning....
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things
| Author | Lafcadio Hearn |
| ISBN | 0804836620 |
A blind musician with amazing talent is called upon to perform for the dead. Faceless creatures haunt an unwary traveler. A beautiful woman — the personification of winter at its cruelest — ruthlessly kills unsuspecting mortals. These and 17 other chilling supernatural tales — based on legends,...
| Author | Sei Shōnagon |
| ISBN | 0231073372 |
"The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon" is a fascinating, detailed account of Japanese court life in the eleventh century. Written by a lady of the court at the height of Heian culture, this book enthralls with its lively gossip, witty observations, and subtle impressions.
Lady Shonagon was an erstwhile...
The Passion According to G.H.
| Author | Clarice Lispector |
| ISBN | 0816617120 |
Aficionados of South American fiction as well as literary critics will welcome this posthumous translation of a nearly plotless novel by one of Brazil's foremost writers. Availing herself of a single character, Lispector transforms a banal situation—a woman at home, alone—into an amphitheater...
Beyond the Dark Veil: Post Mortem & Mourning Photography from the Thanatos Archive
Beyond the Dark Veil: Post Mortem and Mourning Photography from The Thanatos Archive is a compilation of more than 120 extraordinary and haunting photographs and related ephemera documenting the practice of death and mourning photography in the Victorian Era and early twentieth century. Supplemented...
| Author | Trinh T. Minh-ha |
| ISBN | 0253205034 |
"...methodologically innovative... precise and perceptive and conscious..." -Text and Performance Quarterly
"Woman, Native, Other is located at the juncture of a number of different fields and disciplines, and it genuinely succeeds in pushing the boundaries of these disciplines further....
Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn (Comparative Studies in Religion and Society)
| Author | Karen McCarthy Brown |
| ISBN | 0520224752 |
Karen McCarthy Brown's classic book shatters stereotypes of Vodou by offering an intimate portrait of African-based religion in everyday life. She explores the importance of women's religious practices along with related themes of family and of social change. Weaving several of her own voices--analytic,...
| Author | Henri Lefebvre |
| ISBN | 1781683174 |
Henri Lefebvre's magnum opus: a monumental exploration of contemporary society.
Henri Lefebvre's three-volume Critique of Everyday Life is perhaps the richest, most prescient work by one of the twentieth century's greatest philosophers. Written at the birth of post-war consumerism,...
