We Pursue Our Magic : A Spiritual History of Black Feminism / Marina Magloire.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Magloire, Marina, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist spirituality.

African American women authors.

African American women artists.

African American feminists.

African American women authors--History and criticism.

African American women artists--History and criticism.

Feminist spirituality--United States--History--20th century.

African American feminists--United States--History--20th century.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (218 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

The University of North Carolina Press 2023

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2023.

Summary:

"In this book, Marina Magloire draws on the collected archives of distinguished 20th century Black woman artists and writers such as Lucille Clifton, Katherine Dunham, Audre Lorde, Toni Cade Bambara, Lorraine Hansberry, Nina Simone, and Zora Neale Hurston to trace a new history of Black feminist thought in relation to Afro-diaspora religion. She offers an alternative genealogy of Black feminism beginning in the 1930s with the path breaking ethnographic work of Katherine Dunham and Zora Neale Hurston in Haiti and ending with the present-day popularity of Afro-diasporic spiritual practices among Black women"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

An ethics of discomfort: Katherine Dunham's Vodou belonging

Girls' talk: revolutionary destinies in Hansberry and Simone

Uneasy blackness: warrior goddesses in the age of Black power

Weird sisters: spiritual bridges to the third world

Looking for Marie: hoodoo histories and the making of Black feminist genealogy

Notes on a community deferred.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9798890862617

9781469674919

1469674912

OCLC:

1395945692