Oshun''s Daughters - The Search for Womanhood in the Americas

Informationen zum Autor Vanessa K. Valdés is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the City College of New York, City University of New York. She is the editor of Let Spirit Speak! Cultural Journeys through the African Diaspora and the author of Oshun's Daughters: The Search for Womanhood in the Americas , both also published by SUNY Press. Klappentext Examines the ways in which the inclusion of African diasporic religious practices serves as a transgressive tool in narrative discourses in the Americas.

About the author

Vanessa K. Valdés is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the City College of New York, City University of New York. She is the editor of Let Spirit Speak! Cultural Journeys through the African Diaspora and the author of Oshun's Daughters: The Search for Womanhood in the Americas, both also published by SUNY Press.

Product details

• Authors: Vanessa K. Valdes, Vanessa K Valdés, Vanessa K. Valdés, Vanessa K. ValdTs
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.01.2015
• EAN: 9781438450421
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-5042-1
• No. of pages: 219
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Amerika, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Hispanic American