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Feminist Spiritualities : Conjuring Resistance in the Afro-Caribbean and Its Diasporas / Joshua R. Deckman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Deckman, Joshua R., author.
- Series:
- SUNY series, Afro-Latinx futures
- SUNY Series, Afro-Latinx Futures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women authors, Caribbean--History and criticism.
- Women authors, Caribbean.
- Feminism in literature.
- Feminism--Caribbean Area.
- Feminism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [2023]
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Spiritual and Emotional Resistance to Empire
- "We Are All in This Afro-Diasporic Body": African Diasporic Consciousness and Fractality
- Rebellious Spirit/Against Western Modernity
- Caribbean Fractals and Space-Time Otherwise
- "I Don't Want My People in More Pain": Feminist Emotional Politics through Spirit
- Emotional Politics in the African Diaspora and the Caribbean
- "We Need a Heart-Centered Community": Decolonial Love, Joy, and Ethical Relations
- Decolonial Love
- Chapter Outline
- Chapter 1: Sacred Memories: Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro, Mayra Santos-Febres, and the Politics of Race in Puerto Rico
- Historical Hauntings
- An Island in the Wake
- Slavery, Ancestors, and Racial Play
- Ancestras and the Erotic Space of Self
- Embracing the Wake, Sacred Memories
- Chapter 2: The Path of Erzulie: Love, Vodou, and Counter-Imaginations of Hispaniola
- Invoking the Spirits
- The Feminist Politics of Erzulie's Decolonial Love
- Opening Paths
- Erzulie's Spirit and Political Imaginations of the Borderland
- Erzulie's Wake
- Chapter 3: Afro-Latina Feminisms: Nuyorican, Domincanyork, and Afro-Latinx Political Resistance
- Occupying the Border, Inhabiting Pain
- An Alliance of Love and Survival
- Nitty Scott and Ancestral Remembrance
- Elizabeth Acevedo: Beauty, Religiosity, and Liberation
- María Teresa Fernández (La Mariposa): Happiness and the Embodied Borders of Latinidad
- Afro-Latinx Expressions
- Chapter 4: The Raw Ones: Ibeyi, Las Krudas CUBENSI, and Pedagogies of Resistance
- Revolution and Race in Cuba
- Anti-Racist Spiritual Politics in Contemporary Music and Hip-Hop
- Yemayá's Many Paths
- Ibeyi: Transnational Orishas
- Raw Pedagogies: Cuban Hip-Hop and Challenges to Coloniality
- "Yemayá Blew That Wire Fence Down": Transatlantic Crossings
- Santeras Beyond Cuba
- Conclusion: Conjuring Paths, Points of Departure
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 10, 2023).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Deckman, Joshua R. Feminist Spiritualities
- ISBN:
- 9781438493428
- 1438493428
- Publisher Number:
- 40031872750
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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