Yemoja :  gender, sexuality, and creativity in the Latina/o and Afro-Atlantic diasporas / 
edited by Solimar Otero and Toyin Falola. 
 - 1 online resource. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781461951384 (electronic bk.) 1461951380 (electronic bk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Yemaja (Yoruba deity)<br/>Mother goddesses.<br/>Afro-Caribbean cults.<br/>Cultural fusion and the arts.<br/>African diaspora in art.<br/>Goddesses in art.<br/>Orishas in art.<br/>Sex in art.<br/>BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Spirituality / Paganism & Neo-Paganism<br/>RELIGION / Comparative Religion
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BL2480.Y6  / Y46 2013eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>299.61211