Roberto Strongman

Queering Black Atlantic Religions

Transcorporeality in Candomblé, Santería, and Vodou

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Produktbeschreibung

Roberto Strongman examines three Afro-diasporic religionsâ Hatian Vodou, Cuban Lucumà /Santerà a, and Brazilian Candomblà â to demonstrate how the commingling of humans and the divine during trance possession produce subjectivities whose genders are unconstrained by biological sex.

Produktdetails

• Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 448g
• ISBN-13: 9781478003106
• ISBN-10: 1478003103
• Artikelnr.: 52819731

Autorenporträt

Roberto Strongman is Associate Professor of Comparative Caribbean Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Inhaltsangabe

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