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Oshun's Daughters: The Search for Womanhood in the Americas

Vanessa K. Valdés

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Description:Oshun s Daughters examines representations of African diasporic religions from novels and poems written by women in the United States, the Spanish Caribbean, and Brazil. In spite of differences in age, language, and nationality, these women writers all turn to variations of traditional Yoruba religion ("Santeria/Regla de Ocha" and "Candomble") as a source of inspiration for creating portraits of womanhood. Within these religious systems, binaries that dominate European thought man/woman, mind/body, light/dark, good/evil do not function in the same way, as the emphasis is not on extremes but on balancing or reconciling these radical differences. Involvement with these African diasporic religions thus provides alternative models of womanhood that differ substantially from those found in dominant Western patriarchal culture, namely, that of virgin, asexual wife/mother, and whore. Instead we find images of the sexual woman, who enjoys her body without any sense of shame; the mother, who nurtures her children without sacrificing herself; and the warrior woman, who actively resists demands that she conform to one-dimensional stereotypes of womanhood."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Oshun's Daughters: The Search for Womanhood in the Americas. To get started finding Oshun's Daughters: The Search for Womanhood in the Americas, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Oshun s Daughters examines representations of African diasporic religions from novels and poems written by women in the United States, the Spanish Caribbean, and Brazil. In spite of differences in age, language, and nationality, these women writers all turn to variations of traditional Yoruba religion ("Santeria/Regla de Ocha" and "Candomble") as a source of inspiration for creating portraits of womanhood. Within these religious systems, binaries that dominate European thought man/woman, mind/body, light/dark, good/evil do not function in the same way, as the emphasis is not on extremes but on balancing or reconciling these radical differences. Involvement with these African diasporic religions thus provides alternative models of womanhood that differ substantially from those found in dominant Western patriarchal culture, namely, that of virgin, asexual wife/mother, and whore. Instead we find images of the sexual woman, who enjoys her body without any sense of shame; the mother, who nurtures her children without sacrificing herself; and the warrior woman, who actively resists demands that she conform to one-dimensional stereotypes of womanhood."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Oshun's Daughters: The Search for Womanhood in the Americas. To get started finding Oshun's Daughters: The Search for Womanhood in the Americas, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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