Yemoja

List of Illustrations and Other Media

Acknowledgments

Note on Terminology and Orthography

Introduction: Introducing Yemoja

Solimar Otero and Toyin Falola

PART 1
YEMOJA, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY

Invocación / Invocation En busca de un amante desempleado / Searching for an unemployed lover

Pedro R. Pérez-Sarduy

Chapter 1
Nobody’s Mammy: Yemayá as Fierce Foremother in Afro-Cuban Religions

Elizabeth Pérez

Chapter 2
Yemayá’s Duck: Irony, Ambivalence, and the Effeminate Male Subject in Cuban Santería

Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús

Chapter 3
Yemayá y Ochún: Queering the Vernacular Logics of the Waters

Solimar Otero

Chapter 4
A Different Kind of Sweetness: Yemayá in Afro-Cuban Religion

Martin Tsang

Chapter 5
Yemoja: An Introduction to the Divine Mother and Water Goddess

Allison P. Sellers

PART 2
YEMOJA’S AESTHETICS: CREATIVE EXPRESSION IN DIASPORA

Chapter 6
“Yemaya Blew That Wire Fence Down”: Invoking African Spiritualities in Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza and the Mural Art of Juana Alicia

Micaela Díaz-Sánchez
Color image gallery follows page 186

Chapter 7
Dancing Aché with Yemaya in My Life and in My Art: An Artist Statement

Arturo Lindsay

Chapter 8
What the Water Brings and Takes Away: The Work of María Magdalena Campos Pons

Alan West-Durán

Chapter 9
“The Sea Never Dies”: Yemoja: The Infinitely Flowing Mother Force of Africana Literature and Cinema

Teresa N. Washington

Chapter 10
A Sonic Portrait with Photos of Salvador’s Iemanjá Festival

Jamie N. Davidson and Nelson Eubanks

Chapter 11
Yemayá Offering a Pearl of Wisdom: An Artist Statement

Erin Dean Colcord

Notes on Contributors