Yemoja
Subtitle: gender, sexuality, and creativity in the Latina/o and Afro-Atlantic diasporas
By: edited by Solimar Otero and Toyin Falola
Publisher: SUNY Press; State University of New York Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9781438447995
Subjects: Sex in art; Cultural fusion and the arts; African diaspora in art; Afro-Caribbean cults; Orishas in art; Mother goddesses; Yemaja (Yoruba deity); Goddesses in art
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : "Introducing Yemoja" / Solimar Otero and Toyin Falola; title: Yemoja, gender, and sexuality. Invocación/Invocation "En busca de un amante desempleado / Searching for an unemployed lover" / Pedro R. Pérez-Sarduy; title: "Nobody's mammy" : Yemayá as fierce foremother in Afro-Cuban religions / Elizabeth Pérez; title: Yemayá's duck : irony, ambivalence and the effeminate-male subject in Cuban santeria / Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús; title: Yemayá y Ochún : queering the vernacular logics of the waters in Afro-Cuban religion / Solimar Otero; title: A different kind of sweetness : Yemayá in Afro-Cuban religion / Martin Tsang; title: 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; title: Dancing aché with Yemaya in my life and in my art : an artist statement / Arturo Lindsay; title: What the water brings and takes away : the work of Maria Magdalena Campos Pons / Alan West-Durán; title: "The sea never dies" : Yemoja, the mother-force flowing infinitely in Africana literature and cinema / Teresa N. Washington; title: A sonic portrait with photos of Salvador's Iemanjá Festival / Jamie N. Davidson and Nelson Eubanks; title: Yemaya offering a pearl of wisdom : an artist statement / Erin Dean Colcord.