This scholarly monograph is the first literary critical history to focus on representations of Obeah, a name used in the English/Creole-speaking Caribbean to describe various African-inspired, syncretic Caribbean religious practices, across a range of prose fictions published in the twentieth century. This book demonstrates that Obeah, while understudied as a literary trope, has long been central to Caribbean literary production, and thus to the imagination of Caribbean culture(s). The author argues that Obeah has played, and continues to play, an important role in the...