Yemoja : gender, sexuality, and creativity in the Latina/o and Afro-Atlantic diasporas / edited by Solimar Otero and Toyin Falola.

This book bridges theory, art, and practice to discuss emerging issues in transnational religious movements in Latina/o and African diasporas.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Otero, Solimar, Falola, Toyin
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Albany : State University of New York Press, 2013.
Subjects:	Iemanjá Yemaja (Yoruba deity) Mother goddesses. Afro-Caribbean religions. Cultural fusion and the arts. African diaspora in art. Goddesses in art. Orishas in art. Sex in art. BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Spirituality > Paganism & Neo-Paganism. RELIGION > Comparative Religion. African diaspora in art Afro-Caribbean cults Cultural fusion and the arts Goddesses in art Mother goddesses Orishas in art Sex in art Afroamerikanischer Synkretismus Afrokaribischer Kult
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Table of Contents:

Introduction : "Introducing Yemoja" / Solimar Otero and Toyin Falola
Yemoja, gender, and sexuality. Invocación/Invocation "En busca de un amante desempleado / Searching for an unemployed lover" / Pedro R. Pérez-Sarduy ; "Nobody's mammy" : Yemayá as fierce foremother in Afro-Cuban religions / Elizabeth Pérez ; Yemayá's duck : irony, ambivalence and the effeminate-male subject in Cuban santeria / Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús ; Yemayá y Ochún : queering the vernacular logics of the waters in Afro-Cuban religion / Solimar Otero ; A different kind of sweetness : Yemayá in Afro-Cuban religion / Martin Tsang ; Yemoja : divine mother and water goddess / Allison P. Sellers
Yemoja's aesthetics : creative expression in diaspora. "Yemaya blew that wire fence down" : invoking African spiritualities in Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La frontera : the new mestiza and the mural art of Juana Alicia / Micaela Díaz-Sánchez ; Dancing aché with Yemaya in my life and in my art : an artist statement / Arturo Lindsay ; What the water brings and takes away : the work of Maria Magdalena Campos Pons / Alan West-Durán ; "The sea never dies" : Yemoja, the mother-force flowing infinitely in Africana literature and cinema / Teresa N. Washington ; A sonic portrait with photos of Salvador's Iemanjá Festival / Jamie N. Davidson and Nelson Eubanks ; Yemaya offering a pearl of wisdom : an artist statement / Erin Dean Colcord.

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