TY  - BOOK
AU  - Otero,Solimar
AU  - Falola,Toyin
TI  - Yemoja: gender, sexuality, and creativity in the Latina/o and Afro-Atlantic diasporas 
SN  - 9781461951384 (electronic bk.)
AV  - BL2480.Y6 Y46 2013eb
U1  - 299.61211 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Albany
PB  - State University of New York Press
KW  - Yemaja (Yoruba deity)
KW  - Mother goddesses
KW  - Afro-Caribbean cults
KW  - Cultural fusion and the arts
KW  - African diaspora in art
KW  - Goddesses in art
KW  - Orishas in art
KW  - Sex in art
KW  - BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Spirituality / Paganism & Neo-Paganism
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - RELIGION / Comparative Religion
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
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