Research Catalog

Title

Yemoja [electronic resource] : gender, sexuality, and creativity in the Latina/o and Afro-Atlantic diasporas / edited by Solimar Otero and Toyin Falola.

Publication

Albany : SUNY Press, c2013.

Details

Additional Authors

• Otero, Solimar.
• Falola, Toyin.

Description

1 online resource (xxxii, 294 p.) : ill. (some col.)

Uniform Title

Yemoja (Online)

Subject

• 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

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Access (note)

• Access restricted to authorized users.

Contents

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.

LCCN

2012043678

OCLC

ssj0001047799

Title

Yemoja [electronic resource] : gender, sexuality, and creativity in the Latina/o and Afro-Atlantic diasporas / edited by Solimar Otero and Toyin Falola.

Imprint

Albany : SUNY Press, c2013.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Access

Access restricted to authorized users.

Connect to:

Available from home with a valid library card

Available onsite at NYPL

Added Author

Otero, Solimar.

Falola, Toyin.