Feminist spiritualities : conjuring resistance in the afro-caribbean and its diasporas / Joshua R. Deckman.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Deckman, Joshua R., 1990- author.

Series:

• SUNY Series, Afro-Latinx Futures Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Feminism in literature.
• Women authors, Caribbean--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (189 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2023]

Summary:

Explores the feminist spiritual and emotional politics of literary and cultural works by Black Caribbean women.

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:

• Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Deckman, Joshua R. Feminist Spiritualities

ISBN:

• 9781438493428
• 1438493428

OCLC:

1385452281