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Recovering the African Feminine Divine in Literature, the Arts, and
Performing Arts: 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 facilitates cultural survival and the
formation of African -centric identity. These cultural practices
are symbolically represented by Yemonja, the African female deity
who is the mother of the entire world of the Orisha. 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. Since Yemonja also references sexual,
creative, spatial and spiritual energies, the editors and
contributors see her as pivotal to this project as an expansive and
original cartography of impact of the African feminine divine
globally. 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.
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.
New thinking about the role of education in confined environments.
As the work of Malcolm X, Angela Y. Davis, and others has made
clear, education in prison has enabled people to rethink systems of
oppression. Courses in reading and writing help incarcerated
students feel a sense of community, examine the past and present,
and imagine a better future. Yet incarcerated students often lack
the resources, materials, information, and opportunity to pursue
their coursework, and training is not always available for those
who teach incarcerated students. This volume will aid both new and
experienced instructors by providing strategies for developing
courses, for creating supportive learning environments, and for
presenting and publishing incarcerated students' scholarly and
creative work. It also suggests approaches to self-care designed to
help instructors sustain their work. Essays incorporate the
perspectives of both incarcerated and non-incarcerated teachers and
students, centering critical prison studies scholarship and
abolitionist perspectives. This volume contains discussion of Mumia
Abu-Jamal's Live from Death Row, Marita Bonner's The Purple Flower,
Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein,
and William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew and Othello.
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