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
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (336 p.)
• Disciplina: 299.61211
• Soggetto topico: African diaspora in art; Afro-Caribbean cults; Cultural fusion and the arts; Goddesses in art; Mother goddesses; Orishas in art; Sex in art; Yemaja (Yoruba deity)
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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.
• 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.: 9910464206003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II