Feminist Spiritualities : Conjuring Resistance in the Afro-Caribbean and Its Diasporas /
Explores the feminist spiritual and emotional politics of literary and cultural works by Black Caribbean women.
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
[2023]
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| Series: | SUNY series, Afro-Latinx futures.
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=3517709 |
Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Spiritual and Emotional Resistance to Empire
- "We Are All in This Afro-Diasporic Body": African Diasporic Consciousness and Fractality
- Rebellious Spirit/Against Western Modernity
- Caribbean Fractals and Space-Time Otherwise
- "I Don't Want My People in More Pain": Feminist Emotional Politics through Spirit
- Emotional Politics in the African Diaspora and the Caribbean
- "We Need a Heart-Centered Community": Decolonial Love, Joy, and Ethical Relations
- Decolonial Love
- Chapter Outline
- Chapter 1: Sacred Memories: Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro, Mayra Santos-Febres, and the Politics of Race in Puerto Rico
- Historical Hauntings
- An Island in the Wake
- Slavery, Ancestors, and Racial Play
- Ancestras and the Erotic Space of Self
- Embracing the Wake, Sacred Memories
- Chapter 2: The Path of Erzulie: Love, Vodou, and Counter-Imaginations of Hispaniola
- Invoking the Spirits
- The Feminist Politics of Erzulie's Decolonial Love
- Opening Paths
- Erzulie's Spirit and Political Imaginations of the Borderland
- Erzulie's Wake
- Chapter 3: Afro-Latina Feminisms: Nuyorican, Domincanyork, and Afro-Latinx Political Resistance
- Occupying the Border, Inhabiting Pain
- An Alliance of Love and Survival
- Nitty Scott and Ancestral Remembrance
- Elizabeth Acevedo: Beauty, Religiosity, and Liberation
- María Teresa Fernández (La Mariposa): Happiness and the Embodied Borders of Latinidad
- Afro-Latinx Expressions
- Chapter 4: The Raw Ones: Ibeyi, Las Krudas CUBENSI, and Pedagogies of Resistance
- Revolution and Race in Cuba
- Anti-Racist Spiritual Politics in Contemporary Music and Hip-Hop
- Yemayá's Many Paths
- Ibeyi: Transnational Orishas
- Raw Pedagogies: Cuban Hip-Hop and Challenges to Coloniality
- "Yemayá Blew That Wire Fence Down": Transatlantic Crossings
- Santeras Beyond Cuba
- Conclusion: Conjuring Paths, Points of Departure
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index