Archives of Conjure - Stories of the Dead in Afrolatinx Cultures

Solimar Otero explores how Afrolatinx spirits guide collaborative spiritual-scholarly activist work through rituals and the creation of material culture. By examining spirit mediumship through a Caribbean cross-cultural poetics, she shows how divinities and ancestors serve as active agents in shaping the experiences of gender, sexuality, and race.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Archives of Conjure
1. Residual Transcriptions
2. Crossings
3. Flows
4. Sirens
Conclusion: Espuma del Mar, Sea- Foam
Notes
References
Index

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Solimar Otero is professor of folklore in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University. She is the author of Afro-Cuban Diasporas in the Atlantic World (2010) and coeditor of Yemoja: Gender, Sexuality, and Creativity in Latino/a and Afro-Atlantic Diasporas (2013).

Zusammenfassung

Solimar Otero explores how Afrolatinx spirits guide collaborative spiritual-scholarly activist work through rituals and the creation of material culture. By examining spirit mediumship through a Caribbean cross-cultural poetics, she shows how divinities and ancestors serve as active agents in shaping the experiences of gender, sexuality, and race.

Zusatztext

Archives of Conjure is at times a hypnotic séance conjuring such ancestors as Reinaldo Arenas, Lydia Cabrera, Edouard Glissant, Ruth Landes, and Fernando Ortiz and at times a siren call to attune our scholarship to the feminist, queer, subaltern spiritual 'work' of performance and its archival traces, hidden in plain sight. Through the generative metaphors produced by narratives of 'the two waters,' personified in the orichas Yemayá and Ochún, Otero explores critical engagements between circum-Caribbean scholarship and religious practice. I recommend Otero’s brilliant book as required reading for folklorists, anthropologists, literary scholars, and all who would better understand 'redoubled' global-Caribbean histories that manifest in and through vernacular Afrolatinx spiritual perspectives.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Solimar Otero, Otero Solimar
• Mitarbeit: Amy Hollywood (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 29.02.2020
• EAN: 9780231194327
• ISBN: 978-0-231-19432-7
• Seiten: 264
• Serien: Gender, Theory, and Religion; Gender, Theory, and Religion
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Latin America, Spiritualism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American, RELIGION / Sexuality & Gender Studies, Caribbean islands, Literary studies: general, Gender studies, gender groups, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, Tribal religions, Indigenous, ethnic and folk religions and spiritual beliefs, RELIGION / Folk & Tribal, religion; gender studies; Caribbean; Latin America