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Recovering the African Feminine Divine in Literature, the Arts, and Practice - Yemonja Awakening (Hardcover)
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Recovering the African Feminine Divine in Literature, the Arts, and Practice - Yemonja Awakening (Hardcover)
Series: The Black Atlantic Cultural Series: Revisioning Artistic, Historical, Literary, Psychological, and Sociological Perspectives
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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.
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