Feminist Spiritualities

Conjuring Resistance in the Afro-Caribbean and Its Diasporas

Joshua R. Deckman (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

188 Seiten

2024
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-1-4384-9341-1 (ISBN)

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Explores the feminist spiritual and emotional politics of literary and cultural works by Black Caribbean women.

Feminist Spiritualities aims to complicate contemporary debates surrounding Black/Latinx experiences within a critical framework of decolonial thought, women of color feminisms, politicized emotional structures, and anti-imperial politics. Joshua R. Deckman considers literary and cultural productions from Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Cuba, and their diasporas in the United States, exploring epistemic spaces that have historically been marked as irrational and inconsequential for the production of knowledge—including social media posts, song lyrics, public writings, speeches, and personal interviews. Analyzing works by Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro, Mayra Santos-Febres, Rita Indiana Hernández, Ana-Maurine Lara, Elizabeth Acevedo, María Teresa Fernández, Nitty Scott, Lxs Krudxs Cubensi, and Ibeyi, Deckman shows how these authors develop afro-epistemologies grounded in Caribbean feminist spiritualities and manifest a commitment to finding joy and love in difference. Literary, anthropological, and more, Feminist Spiritualities weaves through a series of fields and methodologies in an undisciplined way to contribute new close readings of recent works and fresh assessments of well-known ones.

Joshua R. Deckman is Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies at Stetson University.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Spiritual and Emotional Resistance to Empire

1. Sacred Memories: Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro, Mayra Santos-Febres, and the Politics of Race in Puerto Rico

2. The Path of Erzulie: Love, Vodou, and Counter-Imaginations of Hispaniola

3. Afro-Latina Feminisms: Nuyorican, Domincanyork, and Afro-Latinx Political Resistance

4. The Raw Ones: Ibeyi, Las Krudas CUBENSI, and Pedagogies of Resistance

Conclusion: Conjuring Paths, Points of Departure
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	05.01.2024
Reihe/Serie	SUNY series, Afro-Latinx Futures
Zusatzinfo	Total Illustrations: 4
Verlagsort	Albany, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	227 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-4384-9341-X / 143849341X
ISBN-13	978-1-4384-9341-1 / 9781438493411
Zustand	Neuware