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Informationen zum Autor Roberto Strongman Klappentext 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. 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
