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Title:

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

Publisher:

SUNY Press,

Copyright Date:

c2013

Description:

xxxii, 294 p., [8] p. of col. plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm

Subject:

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 art.

Other Authors:

Otero, Solimar.
Falola, Toyin.

Notes:

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 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.

ISBN:

143844799X (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781438447995 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)814982230

LCCN:

2012043678

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)