Oshun's Daughters: The Search for Womanhood in the Americas

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201 Ñ * Ò Index Abakuá, 88, 111, 153 Abomey (capital of Dahomey), 33, 171n9 Acosta Belén, Edna, 171n15 Adefunmi, Oseijeman, 174n34 Adisa, Opal Palmer, 166 Afolabi, Niyi, 184n19 Afrekete, 22. See also Yemayá Àjé, 9 Akínyẹmí, Akíntúndé (Ṣàngó in Africa and the African Diaspora), 11 Albizu Campos, Pedro, 172n22 Alcaide Ramírez, Dolores, 175n9 Alcantud Ramón, María Dolores, 99 Algarín, Miguel, 38–39, 44 Allen, Robert, 174n32 Alves, Miriam, 122, 184n17 Enfim . . . Nós: Escritoras Negras Brasileiras Contemporâneas / Finally . . . Us: Contemporary Black Brazilian Women Writers, 122, 123 Amado, Jorge, 12 Amazons, 34 Ancestors, 6, 7–8, 19, 21, 48, 73–74, 89–90, 97, 99, 116, 145–146, 151, 153, 156, 157, 160–161, 178n7 Andrews, George Reid, 180n29, 183n11, 185n22, 185–186n24 Angola, 186n24 Angorô, 158–159 Anzaldúa, Gloria, 43 Araujo, Ana Lucia (Public Memory of Slavery), 168n10 Arnaz, Desi, 169n2 aṣe (also, aché, axé), 8, 46, 148, 160 Ashanti (people), 1 Ayorinde, Christine (Afro-Cuban Religiosity, Revolution and National Identity), 65–66, 175n6 Babalawo 75, 176n14 Babalú-Ayé (also Obaluaiye), 169n2 Badejo, Deidre (Òsun Sèègesi), 9, 133, 142, 163 Badiane, Mamadou, 177n4 Baker, Charley, 184n15 Baker, Houston, 166 202 Index Baker, Josephine, 174n33 Bakongo (people), 1 Ball, M. Charlene, 22 Bambara, Toni Cade, 166 Baraka, Amiri, 166 Barbosa, Márcio, 184n19 Beard, Laura J., 126 Behar, Ruth, 89 Benin. See Dahomey Betances, Ramón Emeterio, 172n22 Black Arts Movement, 20, 53 Black Panther Party, 20, 23 Black Power Movement, 20 Bomba, 171n16 Botánica, 57, 58, 78 Branche, Jerome, (Colonialism and Race), 168n8, 175n6, 179n15 Brathwaite, Kamau, 13 Brazil, 15, 120–124, 125, 184n18, 184n19, 185n22 Abertura, 15 Dictatorship, 120, 125, 149 Institutional Act Number 5 (Ato Instituicional Número 5), 120 Lei Aurea (1888), 151 Lei do Ventre Livre (1871), 185n22 Movimento Feminino pela Anistia (the Women’s Movement for Amnesty), 15, 121 Nós Mulheres (We Women), 121 British West Indies, 2 Brown, Brian, 184n15 Burgos, Julia de, 172n22 Butler, Kim D., 184n19, 185n23 Cabrera, Lydia, 88 Cadernos Negros, 121 Calvo Peña, Beatriz, 178n12 Candomblé, 120, 121, 123–124, 131, 132, 133, 137, 140, 142, 144, 145, 146, 148–149, 158 Angola/Bantu, 120, 150, 156–157, 158–159 Nagô, 1, 5, 120, 156–157, 184n18 Capoeira, 149, 165 Carneiro, Edison, 185n23 Carpentier, Alejo, 12–13, 88 Carter, Ronald, 184n15 Castro, Fidel, 103–104, 107 Catholic Church, 128–131, 135, 137 Centro de Mulheres Brasileiras (Center of Brazilian Women), 15 Chaves Tesser, Carmen, 125 Chaviano, Daína, 16–17, 86–87, 99–100 Casa de juegos (1999), 85, 100–116, 117, 178n13, 179n14, 179n16, 179n18, 179–180n22, 180n23, 180n24, 181n30, 181n31, 181n32, 181n33, 181n34, 182n37, 182n38 El hombre, la hembra y el hambre (1998), 99, 178n12 La Habana oculta series, 99 Los mundos que amo (1979), 99 Chinosole, 26, 33 Chisholm, Shirley, 14 Cixous, Hélène, 136, 181–182n36 Coelho, Paulo, Filho, 182n1 Cole, Sally, 120 Conceição, Sônia Fatima da, 17, 123, 124, 144–145, 161 “Desejo” / “I Want,” 147 “Esperança” / “Hope,” 144–145 Index 203 “Invasão” / “Invasion,” 148–149, 185n20 “Quem dera” / “If Only I Could,” 145–146 Congresso de Mulheres Brasileiras (Brazilian Women’s Congress), 15 Constitution of 1940 (Cuba), 14 Corretjer, Juan Antonio, 173n24 Crawford, Paul, 184n15 Cuba, 14–15, 77–79, 86–88, 89, 94–99, 169n1, 176n15, 178n9, 180n29 Bay of Pigs, 94 Family Code of 1975, 15 Maternity Law, 15 Revolution of 1959, 86–88 Special Period (Período Especial), 101–103, 180n25, 180n26 UNEAC (Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba), 170n4 Cuervo Hewitt, Julia, 3, 111, 177n4, 179n15, 179n19 Cunnigen, Donald, 174n32 DaCosta, Emilia Viotta, 185n23 Dahomey, 1, 30, 33, 34, 170n5 Damas, Léon-Gontran, 13 Damballah, 47 Danticat, Edwidge, 13 Daniel, Yvonne (Dancing Wisdom), 172n17 Davies, Catherine (A Place in the Sun?), 168n11 Davis, Angela, 166 Dayan, Joan, 51–52 Decolonial imaginary, 4 DeCosta-Willis, Miriam, 44 De la Fuente, Alejandro, 176n15 DeQueirós Mattoso, Kátia M., 185n23 Desquiron, Lilas, 13 Diaspora, 3–4, 19, 30, 36, 59, 165 Diasporic Caribbean, 59, 174n2 Diasporic subjectivity, 4, 165 Diaz, Junot, 13 Di Iorio Sandín, Lyn (Killing Spanish), 61–62 Dominican Republic, 61, 63, 68–69, 76, 80, 175–176n9 Drums, 54, 99, 134, 148 Duke, Dawn (Literary Passion), 182–183n3 Durham, Carolyn Richardson, 122, 184n17 Dunn, Margaret M., 59 Dupré, Louis, 180n28 Egun/egungun. See ancestors...