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

Yemonja Awakening

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

Buch | Softcover

152 Seiten

2022
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-4095-6 (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	04.05.2022
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	154 x 220 mm
Gewicht	240 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-7936-4095-5 / 1793640955
ISBN-13	978-1-7936-4095-6 / 9781793640956
Zustand	Neuware