Colin Dayan - November 21, 2011: The Gods in the Trunk, or Chauvet's Remnants

Reflecting on both the productive and the dangerous convergences of the spiritual and the political in Haitian author Marie Vieux Chauvet's fiction, scholar, journalist, and activist Dayan offers an exploration of "the wrinkle in the business of divinity" -- the revealing interplay of matter and not-matter, of defilement and exaltation at the crux of personhood. With Chauvet as her prompt, Dayan moves to rethink our understanding of the "supernatural" by questioning the context of the sacred and the meaning of accursed objects.

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