Yemoja: gender, sexuality, and creativity in the Latina/o and Afro-Atlantic diasporas
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations and Other Media -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Terminology and Orthography -- Introduction: Introducing Yemoja -- Notes -- References -- Part 1: Yemoja, Gender, and Sexuality -- Invocación -- En busca de un amante desempleado -- Invocation -- Searching for a...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Albany
State University of New York Press
2013
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| In: | Year: 2013 |
| Further subjects: | B
African diaspora in art
B Mother goddesses B Yemaja (Yoruba deity) B Electronic books B Orishas in art B Cultural fusion and the arts B Sex in art B Afro-Caribbean cults B Goddesses in art |
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| Summary: | Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations and Other Media -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Terminology and Orthography -- Introduction: Introducing Yemoja -- Notes -- References -- Part 1: Yemoja, Gender, and Sexuality -- Invocación -- En busca de un amante desempleado -- Invocation -- Searching for an unemployed lover -- Chapter 1: Nobody's Mammy: Yemayá as Fierce Foremother in Afro-Cuban Religions -- Yemayá and Regla in Afro-Cuban Tradition -- "La Negrita" and Yemayá -- From Shadow Mother to Mammy -- Yemayá as Warrior Queen -- Multiplicity and Motherwit -- Yemayá Speaks -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Yemayá's Duck: Irony, Ambivalence, and the Effeminate Male Subject in Cuban Santería -- Introduction -- "Only Birds Fly": The Politics of Homosexual Nationalisms -- Religious Masculinities and Dialogic Vacillations -- "El babalao" and "el santero": Divining "Real Men" -- Los hijos de Yemayá -- "El descarado" and "el invertido" -- "No pasa nada": Kill Two Birds with One Stone -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: Yemayá y Ochún Queering the Vernacular Logics of the Waters -- Yemayá and Ochún Revisited -- Embodiment, Gender, and Sexuality -- Conclusion: Reading Vernacular Religious Agency and Lydia Cabrera's Codes -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: A Different Kind of Sweetness: Yemayá in Afro-Cuban Religion -- Yemayá in Afro-Cuban Thought -- Yemayá as Divine and Divinatory Authority -- Olókun God/dess of the Sea -- Erinle -- Orisha Oko -- Odu Ifá, Sex, and Procreation -- Blood, Honey, and Molasses: Oshun and Yemayá -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5: Yemoja: An Introduction to the Divine Mother and Water Goddess -- Who Is Yemoja? -- The Mythology of Yemoja -- A Case Study in Mythology: Santería -- Praise Poetry -- Worshiping Yemoja -- Conclusion -- Notes. |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1461951380 |