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Oshun's Daughters
Vanessa K. Valdés
其他書名
The Search for Womanhood in the Americas
出版SUNY Press, 2014-01-01
主題Literary Criticism / American / Hispanic AmericanLiterary Criticism / American / African AmericanReligion / Ethnic & TribalSocial Science / Black Studies (Global)
ISBN14384504359781438450438
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=6iZLAgAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Examines the ways in which the inclusion of African diasporic religious practices serves as a transgressive tool in narrative discourses in the Americas.

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 (Santería/Regla de Ocha and Candomblé) 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.