Feminist Spiritualities aims to complicate contemporary debates surrounding Black/Latinx experiences within a critical framework of decolonial thought, women of color feminisms, politicized emotional structures, and anti-imperial politics. Joshua R. Deckman considers literary and cultural productions from Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Cuba, and their diasporas in the United States, exploring epistemic spaces that have historically been marked as irrational and inconsequential for the production of knowledge—including social media posts, song lyrics, public writings, speeches, and personal interviews. Analyzing works by Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro, Mayra Santos-Febres, Rita Indiana Hernández, Ana-Maurine Lara, Elizabeth Acevedo, María Teresa Fernández, Nitty Scott, Lxs Krudxs Cubensi, and Ibeyi, Deckman shows how these authors develop afro-epistemologies grounded in Caribbean feminist spiritualities and manifest a commitment to finding joy and love in difference. Literary, anthropological, and more, Feminist Spiritualities weaves through a series of fields and methodologies in an undisciplined way to contribute new close readings of recent works and fresh assessments of well-known ones.
ISBN-13: 9781438493411
Media Type: Paperback
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication Date: 01-02-2024
Pages: 188
Product Dimensions: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.43d
Series: Suny Series - Afro-Latinx Futures
Joshua R. Deckman is Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies at Stetson University.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Spiritual and Emotional Resistance to Empire
1. Sacred Memories: Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro, Mayra Santos-Febres, and the Politics of Race in Puerto Rico
2. The Path of Erzulie: Love, Vodou, and Counter-Imaginations of Hispaniola
3. Afro-Latina Feminisms: Nuyorican, Domincanyork, and Afro-Latinx Political Resistance
4. The Raw Ones: Ibeyi, Las Krudas CUBENSI, and Pedagogies of Resistance
Conclusion: Conjuring Paths, Points of Departure
Notes
Works Cited
Index
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