Yemoja: Gender, Sexuality, and Creativity in the Latina/o and Afro-Atlantic Diasporas – Digital Instant Dowload.

Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1438448007
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1438448008
• Author: Solimar Otero

This is the first collection of essays to analyze intersectional religious and cultural practices surrounding the deity Yemoja. In Afro-Atlantic traditions, Yemoja is associated with motherhood, women, the arts, and the family. This book reveals how Yemoja traditions are negotiating gender, sexuality, and cultural identities in bold ways that emphasize the shifting beliefs and cultural practices of contemporary times. Contributors come from a wide range of fields—religious studies, art history, literature, and anthropology—and focus on the central concern of how different religious communities explore issues of race, gender, and sexuality through religious practice and discourse. The volume adds the voices of religious practitioners and artists to those of scholars to engage in conversations about how Latino/a and African diaspora religions respond creatively to a history of colonization.

Table contents:

Part 1. Yemoja, Gender, and Sexuality

Invocación / Invocation En busca de un amnte desempleado / Searching for an unemployed lover
Pedro R. Pérez-Sarduy

1. Nobody’s Mammy: Yemayá as Fierce Foremother in Afro-Cuban Religions
Elizabeth Pérez

2. Yemayá’s Duck: Irony, Ambivalence, and the Effeminate Male Subject in Cuban Santería
Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús

3. Yemayá y Ochún: Queering the Vernacular Logics of the Waters
Solimar Otero

4. A Different Kind of Sweetness: Yemayá in Afro-Cuban Religion
Martin Tsang

5. Yemoja: An Introduction to the Divine Mother and Water Goddess
Allison P. Sellers

Part 2. Yemoja’s Aesthetics: Creative Expression in Diaspora

6. “Yemaya Blew That Wire Fence Down”: Invoking African Spiritualties in Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza and the Mural Art of Juana Alicia
Micaela Díaz-Sánchez

7. Dancing Aché with Yemaya in My Life and in My Art: An Artist Statement
Arturo Lindsay

8. What the Water Brings and Takes Away: The Work of Marìa Magdalena Campos Pons
Alan West-Durán

9. “The Sea Never Dies”: Yemoja: The Infinitely Flowing Mother Force of Africana Literature and Cinema
Teresa N. Washington

10. A Sonic Portrait with Photos of Salvador’s Iemanjá Festival
Jamie N. Davidson and Nelson Eubanks

11. Yemaya Offering a Pearl of Wisdom: An Artist Statement
Erin Dean Colcord

Notes on Contributors
Index