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Titolo: | Yemoja : gender, sexuality, and creativity in the Latina/o and Afro-Atlantic diasporas / / edited by Solimar Otero and Toyin Falola |
Pubblicazione: | Albany : , : SUNY Press, , 2013 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
Disciplina: | 299.61211 |
Soggetto topico: | 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) | |
Altri autori: | OteroSolimar |
Persona (resp. second.): | FalolaToyin |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | Bridges theory, art, and practice to discuss emerging issues in transnational religious movements in Latina/o and African diasporas. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Yemoja |
ISBN: | 1-4619-5138-0 |
1-4384-4801-5 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910824017903321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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