Afolabi Relocating the Sacred

African Divinities and Brazilian Cultural Hybridities
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4384-9073-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 366 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series, Afro-Latinx Futures

Maps manifestations of the sacred and religious syncretism in Afro-Brazilian cultural forms.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Afolabi, Niyi

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Lateinamerikanische Literaturen, Spanische Literatur außerhalb Europas

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Introduction

Part I: Mapping the Sacred

1. Bahia: Yoruba Diasporic Domain of Activating the Sacred

2. Pierre Verger and Yoruba Ritual Altars in Brazil

3. Matriarchs of Candomblé: Mãe Stella de Oxóssi, Mãe Beata de Yemonjá, and Mãe Valnizia Bianch

Part II: The Sacred in Literary Manifestations

4. Jorge Amado and Vasconcelos Maia: The Sea/River as Iemojá/Oxum’s Domain

5. Abdias Nascimento and Nelson Rodrigues: The Fallen Angel as Betrayal of Blackness

6. Zora Seljan and Alfredo Dias Gomes: Sacred Feminine Solidarities and Sango’s Revenge

7. Raul Longo and Robson Pinheiro: Afro-Brazilian Deities in Literary Rituals

8. Cléo Martins and Chynae: Oiá and Oxossi in Invocations and Encounters

Part III: Hybridities in Afro-Brazilian Culture

9. Filhos de Gandhi and Cortejo Afro: Candomblé in the Carnivalesque Frame

10. Give Us This Day Our Daily Acarajé

Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Niyi Afolabi is Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Identities in Flux: Race, Migration, and Citizenship in Brazil, also published by SUNY Press; Afro-Brazilians: Cultural Production in a Racial Democracy; and Ilê Aiyê in Brazil and the Reinvention of Africa.