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Oshun's Daughters
- The Search for Womanhood in the Americas
Engelsk
Bogcover for Oshun's Daughters af Vanessa K. Valdes, 9781438450421
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
219
ISBN-13:
9781438450421
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1438450427
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
2 jan 2015
Størrelse i cm:
22,7 x 15,2 x 1,7
Oplagsdato:
2 jan 2015
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Oshun's Daughters

- The Search for Womanhood in the Americas
Engelsk
Paperback 2015
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Examines the ways in which the inclusion of African diasporic religious practices serves as a transgressive tool in narrative discourses in the Americas.

Finalist for the 2015 Albert J. Raboteau Prize for the Best Book in Africana Religions presented by the Journal of Africana Religions

Oshun''s Daughters examines representations of African diasporic religions from novels and poems written by women in the United States, the Spanish Caribbean, and Brazil. In spite of differences in age, language, and nationality, these women writers all turn to variations of traditional Yoruba religion (Santería/Regla de Ocha and Candomblé) as a source of inspiration for creating portraits of womanhood. Within these religious systems, binaries that dominate European thought-man/woman, mind/body, light/dark, good/evil-do not function in the same way, as the emphasis is not on extremes but on balancing or reconciling these radical differences. Involvement with these African diasporic religions thus provides alternative models of womanhood that differ substantially from those found in dominant Western patriarchal culture, namely, that of virgin, asexual wife/mother, and whore. Instead we find images of the sexual woman, who enjoys her body without any sense of shame; the mother, who nurtures her children without sacrificing herself; and the warrior woman, who actively resists demands that she conform to one-dimensional stereotypes of womanhood.

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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
219
ISBN-13:
9781438450421
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1438450427
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
2 jan 2015
Størrelse i cm:
22,7 x 15,2 x 1,7
Oplagsdato:
2 jan 2015
Forfatter(e):
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