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000586175 1001_ $$aMarouan, Maha,$$d1975-
000586175 24510 $$aWitches, goddesses, and angry spirits :$$bthe politics of spiritual liberation in African diaspora women's fiction /$$cMaha Marouan.
000586175 2463_ $$aWitches, goddesses, & angry spirits
000586175 260__ $$aColumbus :$$bOhio State University Press,$$cc2013.
000586175 300__ $$ax, 180 p. :$$bill. ;$$c24 cm.
000586175 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 159-166) and index.
000586175 5050_ $$aIntroduction : Breath, eyes, memory, Paradise and I, Tituba, Black witch of Salem : a theoretical and thematic framework -- In the spirit of Erzulie : Vodou and the re-imagining of Haitian womanhood in Edwidge Danticat's Breath, eyes, memory -- "Thunder, perfect mind" : gnosticism and the utopian impulse in Toni Morrison's Paradise -- Conjuring history : the meaning of witchcraft in Maryse Condé's I, Tituba, Black witch of Salem -- Conclusion : The return of witches, goddesses, and angry spirits.
000586175 520__ $$a"Witches, Goddesses and Angry Spirits: The Politics of Spiritual Liberation in African Diaspora Women's Fiction explores African diaspora religious practices as vehicles for Africana women's spiritual transformation, using representative fictions by three contemporary writers of the African Americas who compose fresh models of female spirituality: Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994) by Haitian American novelist Edwidge Danticat; Paradise (1998) by African American Nobel laureate Toni Morrison; and I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem (1992) by Guadeloupean author Maryse Condé. Author Maha Marouan argues that while these authors' works burst with powerful female figures--witches, goddesses, healers, priestesses, angry spirits--they also remain honest in reminding readers of the silences surrounding African diaspora women's realities and experiences of violence, often as a result of gendered religious discourses. To make sense of Africana women's experiences of the diaspora, this book operates from a transnational perspective that moves across national and linguistic boundaries as it connects the Anglophone, the Francophone, and the Creole worlds of the African Americas. In doing so, Marouan identifies crucial shared thematic concerns regarding the authors' engagement with religious frameworks--some Judeo-Christian, some not--heretofore unexamined in such a careful, comparative fashion." -- Publisher's description.
000586175 60010 $$aDanticat, Edwidge,$$d1969-$$tBreath, eyes, memory.
000586175 60010 $$aMorrison, Toni.$$tParadise.
000586175 60010 $$aCondé, Maryse.$$tMoi, Tituba, sorcière.
000586175 650_0 $$aAmerican fiction$$xAfrican American authors$$xHistory and criticism.
000586175 650_0 $$aAmerican fiction$$xWomen authors$$xHistory and criticism.
000586175 650_0 $$aAfrican American women in literature.
000586175 650_0 $$aAfrican diaspora in literature.
000586175 650_0 $$aAfrican American women authors.
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