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

Contents

Contents List of illustrations and other media ix Acknowledgments xiii note on terminology and orthography xv introduction: introducing Yemoja xvii Solimar Otero and Toyin Falola PART 1 YEMOJA, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY invocación / invocation En busca de un amante desempleado / Searching for an unemployed lover 2 Pedro R. Pérez-Sarduy Chapter 1 nobody’s mammy: Yemayá as Fierce Foremother in Afro-Cuban religions 9 Elizabeth Pérez Chapter 2 Yemayá’s Duck: irony, Ambivalence, and the Effeminate male Subject in Cuban Santería 43 Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús Chapter 3 Yemayá y Ochún: Queering the Vernacular Logics of the Waters 85 Solimar Otero Chapter 4 A Different Kind of Sweetness: Yemayá in Afro-Cuban religion 113 Martin Tsang viii Contents Chapter 5 Yemoja: An introduction to the Divine mother and Water Goddess 131 Allison P. Sellers 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 153 Micaela Díaz-Sánchez Color image gallery follows page 186 Chapter 7 Dancing Aché with Yemaya in my Life and in my Art: An Artist Statement 187 Arturo Lindsay Chapter 8 What the Water Brings and takes Away: the Work of maría magdalena Campos Pons 197 Alan West-Durán Chapter 9 “the Sea never Dies”: Yemoja: the infinitely Flowing mother Force of Africana Literature and Cinema 215 Teresa N. Washington Chapter 10 A Sonic Portrait with Photos of Salvador’s iemanjá Festival 267 Jamie N. Davidson and Nelson Eubanks Chapter 11 Yemayá offering a Pearl of Wisdom: An Artist Statement 275 Erin Dean Colcord notes on Contributors 279 index 285 ...