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Yemoja : gender, sexuality, and creativity in the Latina/o and Afro-Atlantic diasporas / edited by Solimar Otero and Toyin Falola.

Contributor(s): Otero, Solimar | Falola, Toyin
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Albany : SUNY Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: xxxii, 294 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781438447995 (hardcover : alk. paper); 143844799X (hardcover : alk. paper)Subject(s): Yemaja (Yoruba deity) | Mother goddesses | Afro-Caribbean cults | Cultural fusion and the arts | African diaspora in art | Goddesses in art | Orishas in art | Sex in artLOC classification: BL2480.Y6 | Y46 2013Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
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 santería / Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús -- Yemayá y Ochún : queering the vernacular logics of the waters / Solimar Otero -- A different kind of sweetness : Yemayá in Afro-Cuban religion / Martin Tsang -- Yemoja : an introduction to the 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 María Magdalena Campos Pons / Alan West-Durán -- "The sea never dies" : Yemoja, the infinitely flowing mother force flowing of Africana literature and cinema / Teresa N. Washington -- A sonic portrait with photos of Salvador's Iemanjá Festival / Jamie N. Davidson and Nelson Eubanks -- Yemayá offering a pearl of wisdom : an artist statement / Erin Dean Colcord.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : introducing Yemoja / Solimar Otero and Toyin Falola -- Part 1. 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 santería / Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús -- Yemayá y Ochún : queering the vernacular logics of the waters / Solimar Otero -- A different kind of sweetness : Yemayá in Afro-Cuban religion / Martin Tsang -- Yemoja : an introduction to the divine mother and water goddess / Allison P. Sellers -- Part 2. 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 María Magdalena Campos Pons / Alan West-Durán -- "The sea never dies" : Yemoja, the infinitely flowing mother force flowing of Africana literature and cinema / Teresa N. Washington -- A sonic portrait with photos of Salvador's Iemanjá Festival / Jamie N. Davidson and Nelson Eubanks -- Yemayá offering a pearl of wisdom : an artist statement / Erin Dean Colcord.

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