Yemoja : gender, sexuality, and creativity in the Latina/o and Afro-Atlantic diasporas /
Yemoja : gender, sexuality, and creativity in the Latina/o and Afro-Atlantic diasporas /
edited by Solimar Otero and Toyin Falola.
- Albany : State University of New York Press, (c)2013.
- 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction : "Introducing Yemoja" / Yemoja, gender, and sexuality. Invocación/Invocation "En busca de un amante desempleado / "Nobody's mammy" : Yemayá as fierce foremother in Afro-Cuban religions / Yemayá's duck : irony, ambivalence and the effeminate-male subject in Cuban santeria / Yemayá y Ochún : queering the vernacular logics of the waters in Afro-Cuban religion / A different kind of sweetness : Yemayá in Afro-Cuban religion / Yemoja : divine mother and water goddess / Dancing aché with Yemaya in my life and in my art : an artist statement / What the water brings and takes away : the work of Maria Magdalena Campos Pons / "The sea never dies" : Yemoja, the mother-force flowing infinitely in Africana literature and cinema / A sonic portrait with photos of Salvador's Iemanjá Festival / Yemaya offering a pearl of wisdom : an artist statement / Solimar Otero and Toyin Falola -- Searching for an unemployed lover" / Pedro R. Pérez-Sarduy -- Elizabeth Pérez -- Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús -- Solimar Otero -- Martin Tsang -- 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 -- Arturo Lindsay -- Alan West-Durán -- Teresa N. Washington -- Jamie N. Davidson and Nelson Eubanks -- Erin Dean Colcord.
9781461951384
Yemaja (Yoruba deity)
Mother goddesses.
Afro-Caribbean cults.
Cultural fusion and the arts.
African diaspora in art.
Goddesses in art.
Orishas in art.
Sex in art.
Electronic Books.
BL2480 / .Y466 2013
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction : "Introducing Yemoja" / Yemoja, gender, and sexuality. Invocación/Invocation "En busca de un amante desempleado / "Nobody's mammy" : Yemayá as fierce foremother in Afro-Cuban religions / Yemayá's duck : irony, ambivalence and the effeminate-male subject in Cuban santeria / Yemayá y Ochún : queering the vernacular logics of the waters in Afro-Cuban religion / A different kind of sweetness : Yemayá in Afro-Cuban religion / Yemoja : divine mother and water goddess / Dancing aché with Yemaya in my life and in my art : an artist statement / What the water brings and takes away : the work of Maria Magdalena Campos Pons / "The sea never dies" : Yemoja, the mother-force flowing infinitely in Africana literature and cinema / A sonic portrait with photos of Salvador's Iemanjá Festival / Yemaya offering a pearl of wisdom : an artist statement / Solimar Otero and Toyin Falola -- Searching for an unemployed lover" / Pedro R. Pérez-Sarduy -- Elizabeth Pérez -- Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús -- Solimar Otero -- Martin Tsang -- 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 -- Arturo Lindsay -- Alan West-Durán -- Teresa N. Washington -- Jamie N. Davidson and Nelson Eubanks -- Erin Dean Colcord.
9781461951384
Yemaja (Yoruba deity)
Mother goddesses.
Afro-Caribbean cults.
Cultural fusion and the arts.
African diaspora in art.
Goddesses in art.
Orishas in art.
Sex in art.
Electronic Books.
BL2480 / .Y466 2013