Oshun's Daughters - The Search for Womanhood in the Americas (Hardcover)

Oshun s Daughters examines representations of African diasporic religions from novels and poems written by women in the United States, the Spanish Caribbean, and Brazil. In spite of differences in age, language, and nationality, these women writers all turn to variations of traditional Yoruba religion ("Santeria/Regla de Ocha" and "Candomble") as a source of inspiration for creating portraits of womanhood. Within these religious systems, binaries that dominate European thought man/woman, mind/body, light/dark, good/evil do not function in the same way, as the emphasis is not on extremes but on balancing or reconciling these radical differences. Involvement with these African diasporic religions thus provides alternative models of womanhood that differ substantially from those found in dominant Western patriarchal culture, namely, that of virgin, asexual wife/mother, and whore. Instead we find images of the sexual woman, who enjoys her body without any sense of shame; the mother, who nurtures her children without sacrificing herself; and the warrior woman, who actively resists demands that she conform to one-dimensional stereotypes of womanhood."

General

Imprint:	State University of New York Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2014
First published:	2014
Authors:	Vanessa K. Valdes
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	219
ISBN-13:	978-1-4384-5043-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Black studies Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Non-Christian religions > Ethnic or tribal religions > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > Non-Christian religions > Ethnic or tribal religions > General
LSN:	1-4384-5043-5
Barcode:	9781438450438

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