Yemoja : Gender, Sexuality, and Creativity in the Latina/o and Afro-Atlantic Diasporas.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations and Other Media -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Terminology and Orthography -- Introduction: Introducing Yemoja -- Notes -- References -- Part 1: Yemoja, Gender, and Sexuality -- Invocación -- En busca de un amante desempleado -- Invocation -- Searching for an unemployed lover -- Chapter 1: Nobody's Mammy: Yemayá as Fierce Foremother in Afro-Cuban Religions -- Yemayá and Regla in Afro-Cuban Tradition -- "La Negrita" and Yemayá -- From Shadow Mother to Mammy -- Yemayá as Warrior Queen -- Multiplicity and Motherwit -- Yemayá Speaks -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Yemayá's Duck: Irony, Ambivalence, and the Effeminate Male Subject in Cuban Santería -- Introduction -- "Only Birds Fly": The Politics of Homosexual Nationalisms -- Religious Masculinities and Dialogic Vacillations -- "El babalao" and "el santero": Divining "Real Men" -- Los hijos de Yemayá -- "El descarado" and "el invertido" -- "No pasa nada": Kill Two Birds with One Stone -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: Yemayá y Ochún Queering the Vernacular Logics of the Waters -- Yemayá and Ochún Revisited -- Embodiment, Gender, and Sexuality -- Conclusion: Reading Vernacular Religious Agency and Lydia Cabrera's Codes -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: A Different Kind of Sweetness: Yemayá in Afro-Cuban Religion -- Yemayá in Afro-Cuban Thought -- Yemayá as Divine and Divinatory Authority -- Olókun God/dess of the Sea -- Erinle -- Orisha Oko -- Odu Ifá, Sex, and Procreation -- Blood, Honey, and Molasses: Oshun and Yemayá -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5: Yemoja: An Introduction to the Divine Mother and Water Goddess -- Who Is Yemoja? -- The Mythology of Yemoja -- A Case Study in Mythology: Santería -- Praise Poetry -- Worshiping Yemoja -- Conclusion -- Notes.

Part 2: Yemoja's Aesthetics: Creative Expression in Diaspora -- Chapter 6: "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 -- "Re-imagining the Borderlands": Trans-Atlantic Crossings and Hemispheric Meditations -- "Otro Camino": Another Crossing in Red and Black -- Diasporic Imaginings -- Coalitional Politics/Diasporic Implications -- Performing on the Scaffold -- Notes -- References -- Color image gallery -- Chapter 7: Dancing Aché with Yemaya in My Life and in My Art: An Artist Statement -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 8: What the Water Brings and Takes Away: The Work of María Magdalena Campos Pons -- Yemayá: The Water Speaks -- Diaspora, Race, and Identity -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 9: "The Sea Never Dies": Yemoja: The Infinitely Flowing Mother Force of Africana Literature and Cinema -- "A Lil Mo Juba for My Shrine" -- Mother Who Births Worlds of Bone -- Revolutionary Mother Whose Waves Resurrect the Righteous -- Ever-Present Mother Who Re/Turns You In/To Yourself -- Mother Whose Breast Is a Bridge -- La Agua Continua -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 10: A Sonic Portrait with Photos of Salvador's Iemanjá Festival -- Note -- Chapter 11: Yemayá Offering a Pearl of Wisdom: An Artist Statement -- Yemayá Offering a Pearl of Wisdom -- Mermaid Playing with Merbaby -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.

Bridges theory, art, and practice to discuss emerging issues in transnational religious movements in Latina/o and African diasporas.

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