Queering Black Atlantic Religions

Transcorporeality in Candomblé, Santería, and Vodou

Roberto Strongman (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

296 Seiten

2019
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-0310-6 (ISBN)

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Roberto Strongman examines three Afro-diasporic religions—Hatian Vodou, Cuban Lucumí/Santería, and Brazilian Candomblé—to demonstrate how the commingling of humans and the divine during trance possession produce subjectivities whose genders are unconstrained by biological sex.

In Queering Black Atlantic Religions Roberto Strongman examines Haitian Vodou, Cuban Lucumí/Santería, and Brazilian Candomblé to demonstrate how religious rituals of trance possession allow humans to understand themselves as embodiments of the divine. In these rituals, the commingling of humans and the divine produces gender identities that are independent of biological sex. As opposed to the Cartesian view of the spirit as locked within the body, the body in Afro-diasporic religions is an open receptacle. Showing how trance possession is a primary aspect of almost all Afro-diasporic cultural production, Strongman articulates transcorporeality as a black, trans-Atlantic understanding of the human psyche, soul, and gender as multiple, removable, and external to the body.

Roberto Strongman is Associate Professor of Comparative Caribbean Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Enter the Igbodu 1
Part I. Vodou
1. Of Dreams and Night Mares: Vodou Women Queering the Body 27
2. Hector Hyppolite èl Même: Between Queer Fetishization and Vodou Self-Portraiture 49
Part II. Lucumí/Santería
3. A Chronology of Queer Lucumí Scholarship: Degeneracy, Ambivalence, Transcorporeality 103
4. Lucumí Diasporic Ethnography: Fran, Cabrera, Lam 133
Part III. Candomblé
5. Queer Candomblé Scholarship and Dona Flor's S/Exua/lity 181
6. Transatlantic Waters of Oxalá: Pierre Verger, Mário de Andrade, and Candomblé in Europe 212
Conclusion: Transcripturality 251
Notes 255
References 261
Index 273

Erscheinungsdatum	24.04.2019
Reihe/Serie	Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People
Zusatzinfo	52 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	431 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4780-0310-3 / 1478003103
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-0310-6 / 9781478003106
Zustand	Neuware