The power of hoodoo is the power of the community that believes in its capacities to heal. Redwood, an African American woman, and Aidan, a Seminole Irish man, journey from Georgia to Chicago, from haunted swampland to a "city of the future." They are gifted performers and hoodoo conjurors, struggling to call up the wondrous world they imagine, not just on stage and screen, but on city streets, in front parlors, in wounded hearts. Hunkering together in dark theatres, diverse audiences marvel at flickering images. Andrea Hairston's alternate history adventure, Redwood and Wildfire, is the winner of the Otherwise Award and the Carl Brandon Kindred Award.Īt the turn of the 20th century, minstrel shows transform into vaudeville, which slides into moving pictures.
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