Recovering the African Feminine Divine in Literature, the Arts, and Practice

Yemonja Awakening
Herausgeber: Simpson-Wilkey, Lajuan; Bridges, Eric M.; Smith McKoy, Sheila

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Produktbeschreibung

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, con...

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 231g
• ISBN-13: 9781793640956
• ISBN-10: 1793640955
• Artikelnr.: 63594161

Autorenporträt

Dr. LaJuan Simpson-Wilkey is interim department chair for the department of social work and human services at Kennesaw State University. Dr. Sheila Smith McKoy is provost and vice president for academic affairs at Holy Names University. Eric Bridges is professor of psychology at Clayton State University.

Inhaltsangabe

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