Voodoo Dreams is the spellbinding story of the woman behind the legend. New Orleans in the mid-nineteenth century is a city overflowing with white aristos, black creoles, and African Slaves, a city that pulses with crowds, with commerce and with the power and spectacle of the voodoo religion. At the center of the ritual is Marie Laveau, the notorious voodoiene, worshipped and feared by blacks and . Jewell Parker Rhodes as well. Rhodes, in her novel, Voodoo Dreams: A Novel of Marie Laveau (), contributes to the genre of African American conjuring tales through her fictionalized depiction of Marie Laveau, the Voodoo priestess of New Orleans during the early nineteenth century. Marjorie Pryse's reference. · As she falls under his spell, John sweeps Marie into a world of voodoo ceremonies, of drama and manipulation, and of sometimes terrifying power. A mesmerizing combination of history and story telling, Voodoo Dreams was Jewell Parker Rhodes first novel and a BN Discover Great New Writers selection.2/5(1).
BOOK REVIEW: NOVEL: Where the Women Have Powers That Men Envy: VOODOO DREAMS: A Novel of Marie Laveau by Jewell Parker Rhodes, St. Martins Press, $, pages By VERONICA CHAMBERS. "Rhodes's superb sequel to ′s Voodoo Season, a wazimamoto, or African vampire, stalks Dr. Marie Laveau, a 21st-century doctor, modern voodoo practitioner and descendant of the legendary Voodoo Queen of New Orleans. Rhodes includes an informative author's note about the evolution of the African vampire as a response and a warning. Voodoo Dreams. In Voodoo Dreams, Marie Laveau invents herself: cut off from her mother, from her past, and from her faith, with only her visions to guide her, Marie grows into the mantle of her power through great pain and hardship. Jewell Parker Rhodes updates the legend of Marie Laveau with a thrilling, sensual mystery set in the present.
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