TY - BOOK AU - Falola,Toyin AU - Otero,Solimar TI - Yemoja: gender, sexuality, and creativity in the Latina/o and Afro-Atlantic diasporas SN - 9781438448015 (e-book) AV - BL2480.Y6 Y46 2013 U1 - 299.61211 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Albany PB - SUNY Press KW - African diaspora in art KW - Afro-Caribbean cults KW - Cultural fusion and the arts KW - Goddesses in art KW - Mother goddesses KW - Orishas in art KW - Sex in art KW - Yemaja (Yoruba deity) KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : "Introducing Yemoja" / Solimar Otero and Toyin Falola -- Yemoja, gender, and sexuality. Invocaci�on/Invocation "En busca de un amante desempleado / Searching for an unemployed lover" / Pedro R. P�erez-Sarduy -- "Nobody's mammy" : Yemay�a as fierce foremother in Afro-Cuban religions / Elizabeth P�erez -- Yemay�a's duck : irony, ambivalence and the effeminate-male subject in Cuban santeria / Aisha M. Beliso-De Jes�us -- Yemay�a y Och�un : queering the vernacular logics of the waters in Afro-Cuban religion / Solimar Otero -- A different kind of sweetness : Yemay�a in Afro-Cuban religion / Martin Tsang -- Yemoja : divine mother and water goddess / Allison P. Sellers. Yemoja's aesthetics : creative expression in diaspora. "Yemaya blew that wire fence down" : invoking African spiritualities in Gloria Anzald�ua's Borderlands/La frontera : the new mestiza and the mural art of Juana Alicia / Micaela D�iaz-S�anchez -- Dancing ach�e with Yemaya in my life and in my art : an artist statement / Arturo Lindsay -- What the water brings and takes away : the work of Maria Magdalena Campos Pons / Alan West-Dur�an -- "The sea never dies" : Yemoja, the mother-force flowing infinitely in Africana literature and cinema / Teresa N. Washington -- A sonic portrait with photos of Salvador's Iemanj�a Festival / Jamie N. Davidson and Nelson Eubanks -- Yemaya offering a pearl of wisdom : an artist statement / Erin Dean Colcord UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/nird-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3408785 ER -