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Black Women's Literature of the Americas: Griots and Goddesses

Current price: $180.00
Black Women's Literature of the Americas: Griots and Goddesses
Black Women's Literature of the Americas: Griots and Goddesses

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Black Women's Literature of the Americas: Griots and Goddesses

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The book investigates how Black women in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, the United States, and Brazil turned to their spiritual beliefs as a tool of resilience and resistance. These “griots” and “goddesses” are forced to negotiate complex issues such as race, gender, identity, maternity, sexuality, and belonging, from a liminal position that looks to both settle roots in a foreign land, and stay connected to ancestors and the Sacred. As these Black female protagonists turn to (re)memory and ancestral knowledge to map their connection with the Divine, they become mediators of worlds, and hybrid griots surpassing temporal and geographical boundaries. With important reflections on Toni Morrison’s , Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa’s , and Ana Maria Gonçalves’s , amongst other texts, this book will be of interest to advanced students and researchers of comparative literature, religious studies, gender studies, and African diaspora studies.

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