843
Views
1
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

Fever dreams: obeah, tropical disease, and cultural contamination in colonial Jamaica and the metropole

References

  • Aravamudan, Srinivas. “Introduction.” In Obi, or the History of Three-Fingered Jack, edited by William Earle, 7–52. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 2005.
  • Bauer, Ralph, and José Antonio Mazotti, eds. Creole Subjects in the Colonial Americas: Empires, Texts, Identities. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
  • Bindman, David. Ape to Apollo: Aesthetics and the Idea of Race in the 18th Century. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2002.
  • Brown, Vincent. The Reapers Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008.
  • “Case Histories.” Obeah Histories: Researching Prosecution for Religious Practice in the Caribbean. Accessed August 23, 2014. http://obeahhistories.org/casehistories/.
  • Clark, James. A Treatise on the Yellow Fever, as It Appeared in the Island of Dominica, in the Years 1793-4-5-6. London: J. Murray and S. Highley, 1797. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HMS.COUNT:1159381.
  • Cox, Jeffrey N. “Theatrical Forms, Ideological Conflicts, and the Staging of Obi.” In Obi, edited by Charles Rzepka. Romantic Circles Praxis Series (2002). http://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/obi/cox/cox.html.
  • Fawcett, John. Obi; or, Three-Fingerd Jack: A Serio-Pantomime, in Two Acts. Obi. Edited by Charles Rzepka. Romantic Circles Praxis Series (2002). http://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/obi/obi_pantomime_act1.html.
  • Finlay, Carlos Juan. “El mosquito hipoteticamente considerado como agente de trasmision de la fiebre amarilla [The Mosquito Hypothetically Considered as an Agent in the Transmission of Yellow Fever].” Anales de la Real Academia de Ciencias Médicas, Físicas y Naturales de la Habana 18 (1882): 147–169.
  • Handler, Jerome. “Anti-Obeah Laws of the Anglophone Caribbean, 1760s to 2010.” Paper presented at the annual meeting for the Society for Caribbean Studies, Liverpool, June 29–July 1, 2011.
  • Handler, Jerome. “Diseases and Medical Disabilities of Enslaved Barbadians, From the Seventeenth Century to around 1838: Part I.” The Journal of Caribbean History 40, no. 1 (2006): 1–38.
  • Handler, Jerome. “Slave Medicine and Obeah in Barbados, circa 1650 to 1834.” New West Indian Guide 74, no. 1/2 (2000): 57–90.
  • Handler, Jerome S., and Kenneth M. Bilby. “On the Early Use and Origin of the Term ‘Obeah’ in Barbados and the Anglophone Caribbean.” Slavery and Abolition 22, no. 2 (2010): 87–100.
  • “Johnny Newcome in Love in the West Indies.” Obeah Histories: Researching Prosecution for Religious Practice in the Caribbean. Accessed August 23, 2014. http://obeahhistories.org/johnny-newcome/.
  • Lee, Debbie, “Grave Dirt, Dried Toads, and the Blood of a Black Cat: How Aldridge Worked His Charms.” In Obi, edited by Charles Rzepka. Romantic Circles Praxis Series (2002). http://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/obi/lee/lee.html.
  • “Legislation.” Obeah Histories: Researching Prosecution for Religious Practice in the Caribbean. Accessed August 23, 2014. http://obeahhistories.org/law/.
  • Lewis, Matthew. Journal of a West India Proprietor, edited by Judith Terry. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
  • MacDonald, D. L. “The Isle of Devils: The Jamaican Journal of M.G. Lewis.” In Romanticism and Colonialism: Writing and Empire, 17801830, edited by Timothy Fulford and Peter J. Kitson, 189–205. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
  • McNeill, J. R. Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 16201914. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
  • Moseley, Benjamin. A Treatise on Sugar. 2nd ed. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
  • Murray, William. Obi; or, Three Fingerd Jack: A Melo-Drama in Two Acts. Obi, edited by Charles Rzepka. Romantic Circles Praxis Series (2002). http://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/obi/obi_melodrama_act1.html.
  • Nussbaum, Felicity A. The Limits of the Human: Fictions of Anomaly, Race, and Gender in the Long Eighteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
  • Paton, Diana. “Witchcraft, Poison, Law, and Atlantic Slavery.” William and Mary Quarterly 69, no. 2 (2012): 235–264.
  • Plasa, Carl. “‘Conveying Away the Trash’: Sweetening Slavery in Matthew Lewis's Journal of a West India Proprietor, Kept during a Residence in the Island of Jamaica.” Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net 50 (2008). doi:10.7202/018150ar.
  • Richardson, Alan. “Romantic Voodoo: Obeah and British Culture, 1797–1807.” Studies in Romanticism 32, no. 1 (1993): 3–28.
  • Rzepka, Charles. “Introduction: Obi, Aldridge and Abolition.” In Obi, edited by Charles Rzepka. Romantic Circles Praxis Series (2002). http://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/obi/rzepka/intro.html.
  • Savage, John. “Slave Poison/Slave Medicine: The Persistence of Obeah in Early Nineteenth-Century Martinique.” In Obeah and Other Powers: The Politics of Caribbean Religion and Healing, edited by Diana Paton and Maarit Forde, 149–171. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012.
  • Sayers, James. “Johnny Newcome in Love in the West Indies.” Printed by William Holland, Codspur Street, London, 1808. http://caribhist.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/johnnynewcomean00079530_001.jpg.
  • Schiebinger, Londa. Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007.
  • Sheridan, Richard. Doctors and Slaves: A Medical and Demographic History of Slavery in the British West Indies,1680–1834. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
  • Shakespeare, William. Hamlet, edited by Horace Howard Furness. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1905.
  • Terry, Judith. “Introduction.” In Journal of a West India Proprietor, edited by Matthew Lewis, ix–xxxiv. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
  • “Three-Fingered Jack.” Obeah Histories: Researching Prosecution for Religious Practice in the Caribbean. Accessed January 31, 2014. http://obeahhistories.org/three-fingered-jack/.
  • Zobel, Emily Marshall. “Anansi Tactics in Plantation Jamaica: Matthew Lewis's Record of Trickery.” Wadabagei 12, no. 3 (2009): 126–150.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.