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Erzulie's Skirt - A Novel
"Infused with the language of ritual and indigenous beliefs, "Erzulie's Skirt" is a credible narrative, in which dreams and the spirit world communicate with the living, blurring boundaries and borders as a method of teaching humanity about tolerance and the curative nature of hope." ~ Rigoberto González, El Paso Times Erzulie's Skirt chosen as a finalist for the 19th Lambda Literary Awards!!
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Set in the age of urbanization in the Dominican Republic over the course of several lifetimes, Erzulie’s Skirt is a tale how women and their families struggle with love, tragedy and destiny. Told from the perspectives of three women, Erzulie’s Skirt takes us from the rural villages and sugar cane plantations to the slums of Santo Domingo, and along the journey by yola across the sea between the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. It is a compelling love story that unearths our deep ancestral connections to land, ritual and memory.
Artwork by Wura-Natasha Ogunji, cover design by E.M. Corbin.
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Listing of Other Works by Genre:
SHORT FICTION
- The Tide in To Be Left With the Body - edited by Cheryl Clarke & Steven G. Fullwood; a publication of AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA)
- La Ciguapa, Sable LitMag, Winter 2007.
- Eddie, Blithe House Quarterly,September 2004
- Erzulie's Skirt [novel excerpt] in Tisa Bryant et al (Eds) Encyclopedia 1 A-E, May 2006
POETRY
CRITICAL ESSAYS
- A Change of Manta in LG Mendoza & TN Herrera (eds) Telling Tongues: A Latino Anthology on Language Experience, RedSalmonArts Press, December 2006.
- Cimarronas, Senoras y Ciguapas in R. Spellers & K. Moffitt (Eds) Blackberries and Redbones: Critical Articulations of Black Hairs/Body Politics in Africana Communities, Hampton Press, [forthcoming]
- Vudu in the Dominican Republic: Resistance and Healing, Phoebe Journal of Gender & Cultural Critiques, 17(1), Spring 2005.
- Spirit of the Ancestors: The Photographic Works of Albert Chong and Wura-Natasha Ogunji, Canadian Women's Studies Journal, Winter 2004
ARTIST INTERVIEWS
SOCIAL JUSTICE MOVEMENT WRITINGS
- Integration - National Organizer's Alliance Newsletter, Spring 2004
- www.bustingbinaries.com with co-author, Lisa Weiner-Mahfuz, August 2005
PERFORMANCE ART & INSTALLATIONS
- Pënz: Its Pronounced Pants: an art year collaboration [2008]
- Written on the Body: a multi-entry performance on poetics [2007]
- Lara A. & Wura-Natasha Ogunji. Serving Desire. A performance dinner. Center for African & African American Studies, Austin, TX [May 2006]
- The Austin Project, Austin, TX [April 2006]
- Lara A. & Wura-Natasha Ogunji. Dinner at the Crossroads. A performance dinner in private residences, Queens, NY. [July 2004]
- Lara A. & Wura-Natasha Ogunji. Dinner at the Crossroads. A performance dinner in the show Messengers’ House, Alto Street Art Barn, Santa Fe, NM. [March 2003]
- Lara A. & Wura-Natasha Ogunji. Serving Desire. A performance dinner in the show R x D = [eros] x ethnicity]. Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA. [May 2002]
- Sugarcane Dance: An interactive installation in Mango con Pique Noche Bohemia, Somerville Arts Gallery, Boston, MA. [November 1999]
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