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Ezili's Mirrors

Author : Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley
Publisher : Duke University Press Books
ISBN 13 : 9780822370307
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Ezili's Mirrors written by Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley and published by Duke University Press Books. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the dagger mistress Ezili Je Wouj and the gender-bending mermaid Lasiren to the beautiful femme queen Ezili Freda, the Ezili pantheon of Vodoun spirits represents the divine forces of love, sexuality, prosperity, pleasure, maternity, creativity, and fertility. And just as Ezili appears in different guises and characters, so too does Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley in her voice- and genre-shifting, exploratory book Ezili's Mirrors. Drawing on her background as a literary critic as well as her quest to learn the lessons of her spiritual ancestors, Tinsley theorizes black Atlantic sexuality by tracing how contemporary queer Caribbean and African American writers and performers evoke Ezili. Tinsley shows how Ezili is manifest in the work and personal lives of singers Whitney Houston and Azealia Banks, novelists Nalo Hopkinson and Ana Lara, performers MilDred Gerestant and Sharon Bridgforth, and filmmakers Anne Lescot and Laurence Magloire—none of whom identify as Vodou practitioners. In so doing, Tinsley offers a model of queer black feminist theory that creates new possibilities for decolonizing queer studies.

We Pursue Our Magic

Author : Marina Magloire
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469674904
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book We Pursue Our Magic written by Marina Magloire and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2023-08-29 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the collected archives of distinguished twentieth-century Black woman writers such as Lucille Clifton, Audre Lorde, Toni Cade Bambara, Lorraine Hansberry, and others, Marina Magloire traces a new history of Black feminist thought in relation to Afro-diasporic religion. Beginning in the 1930s with the pathbreaking ethnographic work of Katherine Dunham and Zora Neale Hurston in Haiti and ending with the present-day popularity of Afro-diasporic spiritual practices among Black women, she offers an alternative genealogy of Black feminism, characterized by its desire to reconnect with ancestrally centered religions like Vodou. Magloire reveals the tension, discomfort, and doubt at the heart of each woman's efforts to connect with ancestral spiritual practices. These revered writers are often regarded as unchanging monuments to Black womanhood, but Magloire argues that their feminism is rooted less in self-empowerment than in a fluid pursuit of community despite the inevitable conflicts wrought by racial capitalism. The subjects of this book all model a nuanced Black feminist praxis grounded in the difficult work of community building between Black women across barriers of class, culture, and time.

As If She Were Free

Author : Erica L. Ball
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108493408
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book As If She Were Free written by Erica L. Ball and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-08 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking collective biography narrating the history of emancipation through the life stories of women of African descent in the Americas.

The Methuen Drama Handbook of Gender and Theatre

Author : Sean Metzger
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350123188
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Methuen Drama Handbook of Gender and Theatre written by Sean Metzger and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-28 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a guide to contemporary debates and theatre practices at a time when gender paradigms are both in flux and at the centre of explosive political battlegrounds. The confluence of gender and theatre has long created intense debate about representation, identification, social conditioning, desire, embodiment, and lived experience. As this handbook demonstrates, from the conventions of early modern English, Chinese, Japanese and Hispanic theatres to the subversion of racialized binaries of masculinity and femininity in recent North American, African, Asian, Caribbean and European productions, the matter of gender has consistently taken centre stage. This handbook examines how critical discourses on gender intersect with key debates in the field of theatre studies, as a lens to illuminate the practices of gender and theatre as well as the societies they inform and represent across space and time. Of interest to scholars in the interrelated areas of feminist, gender and sexuality studies, theatre and performance studies, cultural studies, and globalization and diasporic studies, this book demonstrates how researchers are currently addressing theatre about gender issues and gendered theatre practices. While synthesizing and summarizing foundational and evolving debates from a contemporary perspective, this collection offers interpretations and analyses that do not simply look back at existing scholarship, but open up new possibilities and understandings. Featuring essential research tools, including a survey of keywords and an annotated play list, this is an indispensable scholarly handbook for anyone working in theatre and performance.

Circuits of the Sacred

Author : Carlos Ulises Decena
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478024070
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Circuits of the Sacred written by Carlos Ulises Decena and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-04 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Circuits of the Sacred Carlos Ulises Decena examines transnational black Latinx Caribbean immigrant queer life and spirit. Decena models what he calls a faggotology—the erotic in the divine as found in the disreputable and the excessive—as foundational to queer black critical and expressive praxis of the future. Drawing on theoretical analysis, memoir, creative writing, and ethnography of Santería/Lucumí in Santo Domingo, Havana, and New Jersey, Decena moves between languages, locations, pronouns, and genres to map the itineraries of blackness as a “circuit,” a multipronged and multisensorial field. A feminist pilgrimage and extended conversation with the dead, Decena’s study is a provocative work that transforms the academic monograph into a gathering of stories, theoretical innovation, and expressive praxis to channel voices, ancestors, deities, theorists, artists, and spirits from the vantage point of radical feminism and queer-of-color thinking.

Vodou in Haitian Life and Culture

Author : C. Michel
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0312376200
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (123 download)

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Download or read book Vodou in Haitian Life and Culture written by C. Michel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-11-27 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection introduces readers to the history and practice of the Vodou religion, and corrects many misconceptions. The book focuses specifically on the role Vodou plays in Haiti, where it has its strongest following, examining its influence on spiritual beliefs, cultural practices, national identity, popular culture, writing and art.

Our Mothers, Our Powers, Our Texts

Author : Teresa N. Washington
Publisher : Oya's Tornado
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Mothers, Our Powers, Our Texts written by Teresa N. Washington and published by Oya's Tornado. This book was released on 2015-12-23 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Blazes a new trail in Africana literary criticism by providing an insight into the soul and spirit of Africana womanhood.” --Anthonia Kalu, The Ohio State University, author of Women, Literature, and Development in Africa This is the revised and expanded edition of Teresa N. Washington's groundbreaking book Our Mothers, Our Powers, Our Texts: Manifestations of Aje in Africana Literature. In Yoruba language and culture, Aje signifies both a phenomenal spiritual power and the human beings who exercise that power. Aje is the birthright of Africana women who are revered as the Gods of Society. While Africana men can have Aje, its owners and controllers are Africana women. Because it is an African female power, and due to its invisibility, ubiquity, and profundity, Aje is often maligned as witchcraft. However, as Teresa N. Washington reveals in Our Mothers, Our Powers, Our Texts, Aje is central to the Yoruba ethos, worldview, and cosmology. Not only is it essential to human creation and artistic creativity, but as a force of justice and retribution, Aje is vital to social harmony and balance. Washington analyzes forms, figures, and forces of Aje in the Yoruba world, in the Caribbean Islands, in Latin America, and in African America. Washington's research reveals that with the exile and enslavement of millions of Africans, Aje became a global force and an essential ally in organizing insurrections, soothing shattered souls, and reminding the dispossessed of their inherent divinity. From her in-depth exploration of Aje in Pan-African history and orature, Washington guides readers through rich analyses of the symbolic, methodological, and spiritual manifestations of Aje that are central to important works by Africana writers but are rarely elucidated by Western criticism. Our Mothers, Our Powers, Our Texts includes innovative readings of works by many Africana writers, including Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, Ben Okri, Wole Soyinka, Jamaica Kincaid, and Ntozake Shange. This revised and expanded edition of Our Mothers, Our Powers, Our Texts will appeal to scholars of Africana literature, African religion and philosophy, gender studies, and comparative literature. Devotees of Africana spiritual systems will find this book to be indispensable.

Thiefing Sugar

Author : Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822393069
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Thiefing Sugar written by Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-18 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Thiefing Sugar, Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley explores the poetry and prose of Caribbean women writers, revealing in their imagery a rich tradition of erotic relations between women. She takes the book’s title from Dionne Brand’s novel In Another Place, Not Here, where eroticism between women is likened to the sweet and subversive act of cane cutters stealing sugar. The natural world is repeatedly reclaimed and reinterpreted to express love between women in the poetry and prose that Tinsley analyzes. She not only recuperates stories of Caribbean women loving women, stories that have been ignored or passed over by postcolonial and queer scholarship until now, she also shows how those erotic relations and their literary evocations form a poetics and politics of decolonization. Tinsley’s interpretations of twentieth-century literature by Dutch-, English-, and French-speaking women from the Caribbean take into account colonialism, migration, labor history, violence, and revolutionary politics. Throughout Thiefing Sugar, Tinsley connects her readings to contemporary matters such as neoimperialism and international LGBT and human-rights discourses. She explains too how the texts that she examines intervene in black feminist, queer, and postcolonial studies, particularly when she highlights the cultural limitations of the metaphors that dominate queer theory in North America and Europe, including those of the closet and “coming out.”

Mirror

Author : Suzy Lee
Publisher : Seven Footer Press
ISBN 13 : 9781934734391
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Mirror written by Suzy Lee and published by Seven Footer Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young girl dances with her reflection in a mirror in this story told without words.

Vodou Things

Author : Donald Cosentino
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781578060146
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Vodou Things written by Donald Cosentino and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1998 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pierrot Barra and his wife Marie Cassaise are the most astonishing artists that the author of this fascinating book has encountered in more than a decade of researching Vodou in Haiti. Inspired by dreams and psychic visions of Vodoun divinities, the couples' sculptures combine distant memories of Africa, the imagery of Catholic saints, Masonic regalia, and Hollywood Kitsch. 48 full-color photos.

Mirrors

Author : Patricia Matthews
Publisher : Harlequin Books
ISBN 13 : 9780373970704
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Mirrors written by Patricia Matthews and published by Harlequin Books. This book was released on 1988 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

My Mirror's Reflection

Author : Tarek El Turkmani
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1664100563
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (641 download)

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Download or read book My Mirror's Reflection written by Tarek El Turkmani and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-09-24 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liam a young boy who encounters many tragical events that shape his understanding enabling him to mature before his age, taking on responsibilities and tackling every obstacle that he encounters. Having to deal with a traumatic experience can alter a persons perspective from their reality. The hardest obstacle he encountered was losing his parents in a mysterious murder allowing him to take on many adventures to reach those who committed the murder. His faith and patience are what he carried with him throughout the years. Believing with his capabilities even with failure he does not wait for the appraisal of those around him, and he does not give up on the thought of him avenging his parents. Many mysteries will unfold in the chapters within.

A Taste for Brown Sugar

Author : Mireille Miller-Young
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822375915
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book A Taste for Brown Sugar written by Mireille Miller-Young and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-08 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Taste for Brown Sugar boldly takes on representations of black women's sexuality in the porn industry. It is based on Mireille Miller-Young's extensive archival research and her interviews with dozens of women who have worked in the adult entertainment industry since the 1980s. The women share their thoughts about desire and eroticism, black women's sexuality and representation, and ambition and the need to make ends meet. Miller-Young documents their interventions into the complicated history of black women's sexuality, looking at individual choices, however small—a costume, a gesture, an improvised line—as small acts of resistance, of what she calls "illicit eroticism." Building on the work of other black feminist theorists, and contributing to the field of sex work studies, she seeks to expand discussion of black women's sexuality to include their eroticism and desires, as well as their participation and representation in the adult entertainment industry. Miller-Young wants the voices of black women sex workers heard, and the decisions they make, albeit often within material and industrial constraints, recognized as their own.

The Mirrors. [A Tale.].

Author : MIRRORS.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (563 download)

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Download or read book The Mirrors. [A Tale.]. written by MIRRORS. and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Queering Black Atlantic Religions

Author : Roberto Strongman
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478003456
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Queering Black Atlantic Religions written by Roberto Strongman and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Queering Black Atlantic Religions Roberto Strongman examines Haitian Vodou, Cuban Lucumí/Santería, and Brazilian Candomblé to demonstrate how religious rituals of trance possession allow humans to understand themselves as embodiments of the divine. In these rituals, the commingling of humans and the divine produces gender identities that are independent of biological sex. As opposed to the Cartesian view of the spirit as locked within the body, the body in Afro-diasporic religions is an open receptacle. Showing how trance possession is a primary aspect of almost all Afro-diasporic cultural production, Strongman articulates transcorporeality as a black, trans-Atlantic understanding of the human psyche, soul, and gender as multiple, removable, and external to the body.

Mirrors

Author : Serge Roche
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Mirrors written by Serge Roche and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 1985 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mirror Mirror

Author : Neil Leckman
Publisher : Thirteen Press
ISBN 13 : 1291760385
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (917 download)

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Download or read book Mirror Mirror written by Neil Leckman and published by Thirteen Press. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mirrors are fascinating. They reflect everything accurately the things that are in front of them, or do they? Scientists were at one time attempting to create a mirror which showed everything the way the viewer would see it, not the back-to-front reflection we are used to. Quite what that would do to our minds is anyone's guess… Mirrors can be menacing. They can reveal our innermost fears – sometimes showing us those fears in ghastly and horrific forms. Mirrors can speak, according to the fairy tale, giving the viewer what she wanted up to a point, until it no longer became the truth. Mirrors hold many secrets. This anthology reveals some of those secrets and horrors as the talented writers who have allowed me to use their work explore in tales of woe, blood, gore and murder. Here are the real nasties hiding behind the silvered backs of seemingly innocuous mirrors. Look in them at your peril.