Recovering the African Feminine Divine in Literature, the Arts, and - Yemonja Awakening

Recovering the African Feminine Divine explores the range of original and syncretic practices that reclaim the African feminine divine. This collection captures the presence and essential characteristics of African spiritual practice and epistemologies in literature, film, contemporary public conversations, and contemporary cultural practices.

List of contents

Table of Contents
Introduction - Ifakayode Faniyi, Eric Bridges, Sheila Smith McKoy, and LaJuan Simpson-Wilkey
Yemonja: Definitions and Practice
Chapter 1 The Opulent Mother: A Brief Discussion of Yemonja and her Worship in Yorùbáland -Eric M. Bridges
Chapter 2 Yemonja and The Dark Waters of the Subconscious: Reflections on an Africana Archetype - Tarell Kyles
Chapter 3 Iyemonja, Omi Jori: Our Mother, Leader of the Waters - Iya Osundamisi Fafunke
Chapter 4 Yemonja Braidings in Obeah Practices in the Anglophone Caribbean - Sandra Gonsalves-Domond
Chapter 5 What does it mean to be a traditional priestess? Interrogating Women's Engagement with the Divine - Grace Sintim Adasi
Yemonja: Literature, Media, Film
Chapter 6 Yemonja/Yemoja/Yemaya Rising: The Feminine Divine in Music, Fiction, and Media - Sheila Smith McKoy
Chapter 7 The Water of the Womb: The Unseen Power of Yemonja in James Baldwin's If Beale Street Could Talk - Michael Lindsay
Chapter 8 Spirit, Passion and Sufferance: Articulations of Yemoja through Janie Crawford in Their Eyes Were Watching God and Velma Henry in The Salt Eaters - Khalilah Ali
Chapter 9 A Small Piece of Blue Fabric: Manifestations of Yemonja as a Site of Generational Healing in Phyllis Alesia Perry's Stigmata - Griselda Thomas
Chapter 10 Glimpses of Yemaya from Literary and Cultural Foremothers - Leah Creque

About the author

Edited by LaJuan Simpson-Wilkey; Sheila Smith McKoy and Eric M. Bridges - Contributions by LaJuan Simpson-Wilkey; Eric M. Bridges; Tarell Kyles; Iya Osundamisi Fafunke; Sandra Gonsalves-Domond; Grace Sintim Adasi; Sheila Smith McKoy; Michael Lindsay; Khal

Product details

• Authors: Lajuan Smith Mckoy Simpson-Wilkey
• Assisted by: Eric M. Bridges (Editor), LaJuan Simpson-Wilkey (Editor), Sheila Smith McKoy (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2022
• EAN: 9781793640956
• ISBN: 978-1-79364-095-6
• No. of pages: 152
• Series: The Black Atlantic Cultural Series: Revisioning Artistic, Historical, Literary, Psychological, and Sociological Perspectives
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Cultural Studies, RELIGION / Spirituality, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, Africa, Spirituality & religious experience, Literary studies: general, Spirituality and religious experience, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / African Studies