Drawing on a range of historical and literary texts, this book
examines how Black women under the yoke of slavery negotiated their
sense of belonging and spirituality from a liminal position, stuck
between a new life in the Americas, and their connections to their
African ancestral roots and a wider diasporic community. The book
investigates how Black women in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, the
United States, and Brazil turned to their spiritual beliefs as a
tool of resilience and resistance. These “griots” and
“goddesses” are forced to negotiate complex issues such as
race, gender, identity, maternity, sexuality, and belonging, from a
liminal position that looks to both settle roots in a foreign land,
and stay connected to ancestors and the Sacred. As these Black
female protagonists turn to (re)memory and ancestral knowledge to
map their connection with the Divine, they become mediators of
worlds, and hybrid griots surpassing temporal and geographical
boundaries. With important reflections on Toni Morrison’s
Beloved, Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa’s Daughters of the Stone, and Ana
Maria Gonçalves’s Um Defeito de Cor, amongst other texts, this
book will be of interest to advanced students and researchers of
comparative literature, religious studies, gender studies, and
African diaspora studies.
General
Imprint: |
Taylor & Francis
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Routledge African Diaspora Literary and Cultural Studies |
Release date: |
May 2023 |
Firstpublished: |
2022 |
Authors: |
Tonia Leigh Wind
|
Dimensions: |
234 x 156mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
228 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-03-206716-2 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
1-03-206716-0 |
Barcode: |
9781032067162 |
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