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Channeling knowledges : water and Afro-diasporic spirits in Latinx and Caribbean worlds
- Title
- Channeling knowledges : water and Afro-diasporic spirits in Latinx and Caribbean worlds / Rebeca L. Hey-Colón.
- Author
- Hey-Colón, Rebeca L.
- Publication
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2023.
- ©2023
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- Description
- xi, 214 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Hey-Colón considers the central role of water within the writings and imaginations of Latinx and Caribbean women writers and artists. Water is seen as a political border with the United States, but also symbolically as a carrier of knowledge, place of transmutation, and an embodiment of the Afro-diasporic religious figure of Yemayá, the orisha who is most directly tied to water. Oceans, seas, and rivers are the crux of narrative applications by writers such as Gloria Anzaldúa in her seminal work Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, which likens the Rio Grande to an open wound "where the Third World grates against the First and bleeds," and thus the locus of trauma, but also of processing trauma. Likewise, Hey-Colón argues that the physical and the sacred are intimately tied together in Afro-diasporic beliefs--the body is literally the repository of the sacred within spirit possession and so these bodies, when they were captured and subjected to the traumas of slavery, were experienced at the same time over their travels across the Atlantic by the spirits they brought with them from the Old World to the New. In doing so they became a sort of living archive and invocation that is continually passed down through successive generations to their descendants. Water and spirituality are a place of trauma and of healing"--
- Series Statement
- Latinx: the future is now
- Subject
- Latin American literature > Women authors > History and criticism
- Caribbean literature > Women authors > History and criticism
- Art, Latin American > Themes, motives
- Art, Caribbean > Themes, motives
- Water in literature
- African diaspora in literature
- Borderlands in literature
- Water > Latin America > Religious aspects
- Water > Caribbean Area > Religious aspects
- African diaspora in literature
- Art, Latin American > Themes, motives
- Borderlands in literature
- Caribbean literature > Women authors
- Latin American literature > Women authors
- Water in literature
- Water > Religious aspects
- Caribbean Area
- Latin America
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Prologue. Infusing the sacred : the liquid knowledges of the Afrodiasporic world -- Channeling the undocumented in Mayra Santos-Febres boat people -- The techno-resonances of Rita Indianas La mucama de Omicunlé -- Afro-diasporic currents in the Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa Papers -- Orishas in the borderlands -- Epilogue. Water and light : the bóveda as counter-archive
- Call Number
- Sc E 24-269
- ISBN
- 9781477327241
- 147732724X
- 9781477327258
- 1477327258
- 9781477327265 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781477327272 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2022042481
- OCLC
- 1338299106
- Author
- Hey-Colón, Rebeca L., author.
- Title
- Channeling knowledges : water and Afro-diasporic spirits in Latinx and Caribbean worlds / Rebeca L. Hey-Colón.
- Publisher
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2023.
- Copyright Date
- ©2023
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Latinx: the future is now
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 24-269