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

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Place / Publishing House:Albany : : SUNY Press,, 2013.
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 pages) :; illustrations (some color)
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : "Introducing Yemoja" / Solimar Otero and Toyin Falola
  • Yemoja, gender, and sexuality. Invocacion/Invocation "En busca de un amante desempleado / Searching for an unemployed lover" / Pedro R. Perez-Sarduy
  • "Nobody's mammy" : Yemaya as fierce foremother in Afro-Cuban religions / Elizabeth Perez
  • Yemaya's duck : irony, ambivalence and the effeminate-male subject in Cuban santeria / Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesus
  • Yemaya y Ochun : queering the vernacular logics of the waters in Afro-Cuban religion / Solimar Otero
  • A different kind of sweetness : Yemaya 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 Anzaldua's Borderlands/La frontera : the new mestiza and the mural art of Juana Alicia / Micaela Diaz-Sanchez
  • Dancing ache 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-Duran
  • "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 Iemanja Festival / Jamie N. Davidson and Nelson Eubanks
  • Yemaya offering a pearl of wisdom : an artist statement / Erin Dean Colcord.