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Yemoja : gender, sexuality, and creativity in the Latina/o and Afro-Atlantic diasporas / edited by Solimar Otero and Toyin Falola.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African diaspora in art.
- Afro-Caribbean religions.
- Cultural fusion and the arts.
- Goddesses in art.
- Mother goddesses.
- Orishas in art.
- Sex in art.
- Yemaja (Yoruba deity).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (336 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : SUNY Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Bridges theory, art, and practice to discuss emerging issues in transnational religious movements in Latina/o and African diasporas.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781461951384
- 1461951380
- 9781438448015
- 1438448015
- OCLC:
- 862746136
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