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Bridges theory, art, and practice to discuss emerging issues in transnational religious movements in Latina/o and African diasporas.

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Author:   Solimar Otero ,  Toyin Falola
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.535kg
ISBN:  

9781438448008

ISBN 10:   1438448007
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   02 July 2014
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

"List of Illustrations and Other Media Acknowledgments Note on Terminology and Orthography Introduction: Introducing Yemoja Solimar Otero and Toyin Falola Part 1. Yemoja, Gender, and Sexuality Invocacion / Invocation En busca de un amnte desempleado / Searching for an unemployed lover Pedro R. Perez-Sarduy 1. Nobody's Mammy: Yemaya as Fierce Foremother in Afro-Cuban Religions Elizabeth Perez 2. Yemaya's Duck: Irony, Ambivalence, and the Effeminate Male Subject in Cuban Santeria Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesus 3. Yemaya y Ochun: Queering the Vernacular Logics of the Waters Solimar Otero 4. A Different Kind of Sweetness: Yemaya 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 Anzaldua's Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza and the Mural Art of Juana Alicia Micaela Diaz-Sanchez 7. Dancing Ache 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 Maria Magdalena Campos Pons Alan West-Duran 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 Iemanja Festival Jamie N. Davidson and Nelson Eubanks 11. Yemaya Offering a Pearl of Wisdom: An Artist Statement Erin Dean Colcord Notes on Contributors Index"

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Solimar Otero is Associate Professor of English and Folklore at Louisiana State University and author of Afro-Cuban Diasporas in the Atlantic World. Toyin Falola is Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor in History at the University of Texas at Austin. His many books include Culture and Customs of Libya (coauthored with Jason Morgan and Bukola Adeyemi Oyeniyi); Women's Roles in Sub-Saharan Africa (coauthored with Nana Akua Amponsah); and Africa After Fifty Years: Retrospections and Reflections (coedited with Maurice Amutabi and Sylvester Gundona).

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