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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 Goncalves'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.
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.
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