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

by Lajuan Simpson-Wilkey, Sheila Smith McKoy

  • Hardback
  • Publisher: Lexington Books
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 1.3 cm

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Recovering the African Feminine Divine in Literature, the Arts, and Practice: Yemonja Awakening provides context to the myriad ways in which the African feminine divine is being reclaimed by scholars, practitioners, and cultural scholars worldwide. This volume addresses the complex ways in which the reclamation of and recognition of Yemonja, the African female deity who is the mother of the entire world of the Orisha, facilitates cultural survival and the formation of African-centric identity. Also known as Yemaya, Iemanya and Yemaya-Olokun, Yemonja is the deity whose province is the ocean and, given that the Middle Passage was the cultural and spatial crossroad to Africa's numerous diasporas, this deity links the shared histories of African and African descent cultural praxis worldwide. This work provides the context for understanding how the spiritual conceptualizations of the African feminine divine underpin critical cultural forms, even when it has been previously unacknowledged and despite the cultural encounters with European and Western models of being. Scholars of African diaspora studies and the arts will find this book particularly interesting.
Recovering the African Feminine Divine in Literature, the Arts, and Practice: Yemonja Awakening and Art and Faith
Art and FaithRecovering the African Feminine Divine in Literature, the Arts, and Practice: Yemonja Awakening

  • Author

    Sheila Smith McKoy

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Lexington Books

  • Published

    December 2020

  • Weight

    395g

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 1.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9781793640932

  • ISBN-10

    1793640939

  • Eden Code

    5592436

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