Recovering the African Feminine Divine in Literature, the Arts, and Practice

Yemonja Awakening

LaJuan Simpson-Wilkey, Sheila Smith McKoy, Eric M. Bridges (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

152 Seiten

2020
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-4093-2 (ISBN)

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Recovering the African Feminine Divine in Literature, the Arts, and Practice: Yemonja Awakening provides context to the myriad ways in which the African feminine divine is being reclaimed by scholars, practitioners, and cultural scholars worldwide. This volume addresses the complex ways in which the reclamation of and recognition of Yemonja, the African female deity who is the mother of the entire world of the Orisha, facilitates cultural survival and the formation of African-centric identity. Also known as Yemaya, Iemanya and Yemaya-Olokun, Yemonja is the deity whose province is the ocean and, given that the Middle Passage was the cultural and spatial crossroad to Africa’s numerous diasporas, this deity links the shared histories of African and African descent cultural praxis worldwide. This work provides the context for understanding how the spiritual conceptualizations of the African feminine divine underpin critical cultural forms, even when it has been previously unacknowledged and despite the cultural encounters with European and Western models of being. Scholars of African diaspora studies and the arts will find this book particularly interesting.

Dr. LaJuan Simpson-Wilkey is interim department chair for the department of social work and human services at Kennesaw State University. Dr. Sheila Smith McKoy is provost and vice president for academic affairs at Holy Names University. Eric Bridges is professor of psychology at Clayton State University.

Table of Contents

Introduction - Ifakayode Faniyi, Eric Bridges, Sheila Smith McKoy, and LaJuan Simpson-Wilkey

Yemonja: Definitions and Practice

Chapter 1 The Opulent Mother: A Brief Discussion of Yemonja and her Worship in Yorùbáland -Eric M. Bridges

Chapter 2 Yemonja and The Dark Waters of the Subconscious: Reflections on an Africana Archetype - Tarell Kyles

Chapter 3 Iyemonja, Omi Jori: Our Mother, Leader of the Waters - Iya Osundamisi Fafunke

Chapter 4 Yemonja Braidings in Obeah Practices in the Anglophone Caribbean - Sandra Gonsalves-Domond

Chapter 5 What does it mean to be a traditional priestess? Interrogating Women’s Engagement with the Divine - Grace Sintim Adasi

Yemonja: Literature, Media, Film

Chapter 6 Yemonja/Yemoja/Yemaya Rising: The Feminine Divine in Music, Fiction, and Media - Sheila Smith McKoy

Chapter 7 The Water of the Womb: The Unseen Power of Yemonja in James Baldwin’s If Beale Street Could Talk - Michael Lindsay

Chapter 8 Spirit, Passion and Sufferance: Articulations of Yemoja through Janie Crawford in Their Eyes Were Watching God and Velma Henry in The Salt Eaters - Khalilah Ali

Chapter 9 A Small Piece of Blue Fabric: Manifestations of Yemonja as a Site of Generational Healing in Phyllis Alesia Perry’s Stigmata - Griselda Thomas

Chapter 10 Glimpses of Yemaya from Literary and Cultural Foremothers - Leah Creque

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Reihe/Serie	The Black Atlantic Cultural Series: Revisioning Artistic, Historical, Literary, Psychological, and Sociological Perspectives
Co-Autor	LaJuan Simpson-Wilkey, Eric M. Bridges
Sprache	englisch
Maße	161 x 230 mm
Gewicht	408 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-7936-4093-9 / 1793640939
ISBN-13	978-1-7936-4093-2 / 9781793640932
Zustand	Neuware