Mama Lola: An Analysis
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In the ethnographic story Mama Lola, by Karen McCarthy Brown, the method of vodou is revealed as a great healing process and one that is great for the mind, body and soul. It is the story of many different people that come into contact with vodou and how their lives are lived with the spirits of t ....
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.... talked about were partly made up to complete her book and to make everything come together in the end. Vodou is not only a religion for these people, but it is a way of life. Vodou is practiced to help them get by in life day by day, not to rise above the social status that they have, but to be happy in the lives that they live. The way that the immigrant Haitians live in New York is described to the reader by Karen as a much lower class of living. They have little money and have a hard t ....
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