Strongman Roberto Strongman

Queering Black Atlantic Religions (eBook, PDF)

Transcorporeality in Candomble, Santeria, and Vodou

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Produktbeschreibung

In Queering Black Atlantic Religions Roberto Strongman examines Haitian Vodou, Cuban Lucumi/Santeria, and Brazilian Candomble 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478003458
• Artikelnr.: 56913161

Autorenporträt

Roberto Strongman

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