The Black Madonna in Latin America and Europe
Subtitle: tradition and transformation
By: Malgorzata Oleszkiewicz-Peralba.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780826341020
Subjects: Mary, -- Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Cult.; Black Virgins -- Latin America.; Black Virgins -- Europe.
Description: "In Mexico, the Latino United States, Poland, and Brazil, the Black Madonna, manifested in the figures of the Virgin of Guadalupe, Matka Boska Czestochowska, and Nossa Senhora Aparecida/Iemanja, has been a symbol of identity and resistance against oppression, and the subject of curious iconographic transformations. These often conflict with the official control of church and state. Malgorzata Oleszkiewicz-Peralba examines this complex figure from a comparative, cross-cultural, and dynamic perspective in four areas, going beyond the Spanish-speaking world. By encompassing and comparing Spanish American/Indian, Afro-Brazilian and Afro-Caribbean, east-central European, and Mexican American traditions, this book addresses fundamental questions of culture, such as interaction at the borderlands and parallel developments in distant locations. It examines these topics in the light of the theories of transculturation and syncretism, concluding with an analysis of contemporary uses of the Black Madonna and her role in a time of global culture and hybridization."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-209) and index.
Table of contents: title: From neolithic traditions to contemporary fairy tales: popular religiosity, folklore, and symbolic space in East-Central Europe; title: The Virgin of Guadalupe and the creation of national Mestizo identity in Mexico; title: Brazil and the Caribbean: Afro-Indo-European syncretism; title: Aztlán: the subversion of the Virgin in the Mexican American Southwest.