Witches, goddesses, and angry spirits : the politics of spiritual liberation in African diaspora women's fiction / Maha Marouan.
2013
PS374.N4 M35 2013 (Mapit)
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Title
Witches, goddesses, and angry spirits : the politics of spiritual liberation in African diaspora women's fiction / Maha Marouan.
Author
Marouan, Maha, 1975-
ISBN
9780814212196 hardcover alkaline paper
0814212190 hardcover alkaline paper
0814212190 hardcover alkaline paper
Publication Details
Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2013.
Language
English
Description
x, 180 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
PS374.N4 M35 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification
813/.5409928708996
Summary
"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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-166) and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction : 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.
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.