UID:
almafu_9959677579202883
Format:
1 online resource (297 pages).
ISBN:
1478003456
Series Statement:
The religious cultures of African and African diaspora people
Content:
In Queering Black Atlantic Religions Roberto Strongman examines Haitian Vodou, Cuban Lucumí/Santería, and Brazilian Candomblé to demonstrate how religious rituals of trance possession allow humans to understand themselves as embodiments of the divine. In these rituals, the commingling of humans and the divine produces gender identities that are independent of biological sex. As opposed to the Cartesian view of the spirit as locked within the body, the body in Afro-diasporic religions is an open receptacle. Showing how trance possession is a primary aspect of almost all Afro-diasporic cultural production, Strongman articulates transcorporeality as a black, trans-Atlantic understanding of the human psyche, soul, and gender as multiple, removable, and external to the body.
Note:
Of dreams and night-mares : Vodou women queering the body -- Hector Hyppolite èl Même : between queer fetishization and Vodou self-portraiture -- A chronology of queer Lucumí scholarship : degeneracy, ambivalence, transcorporeality -- Lucumí diasporic ethnography : Fran, Cabrera, Lam -- Queer Candomblé scholarship and Dona Flor's S/exua/lity -- Transatlantic waters of Oxalá : Pierre Verger, Mário de Andrade, and Candomblé in Europe.
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Issued also in print.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4780-0310-3
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4780-0197-6
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781478003458
