Queering Black Atlantic Religions - Transcorporeality in Candomble, Santeria, and Vodou

Informationen zum Autor Roberto Strongman Klappentext Roberto Strongman is Associate Professor of Comparative Caribbean Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Roberto Strongman
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2019
• EAN: 9781478001973
• ISBN: 978-1-4780-0197-3
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Religious Cultures of African; Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People; Religious Cultures of African
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works