Channeling Knowledges - Rebeca L. Hey-Colón

Channeling Knowledges

Water and Afro-Diasporic Spirits in Latinx and Caribbean Worlds
Buch | Softcover
280 Seiten
2023
University of Texas Press (Verlag)
978-1-4773-2725-8 (ISBN)
29,90 inkl. MwSt
How water enables Caribbean and Latinx writers to reconnect to their pasts, presents, and futures.

Water is often tasked with upholding division through the imposition of geopolitical borders. We see this in the construction of the Rio Grande/Río Bravo on the US-Mexico border, as well as in how the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean are used to delineate the limits of US territory. In stark contrast to this divisive view, Afro-diasporic religions conceive of water as a place of connection; it is where spiritual entities and ancestors reside, and where knowledge awaits.

Departing from the premise that water encourages confluence through the sustainment of contradiction, Channeling Knowledges fathoms water’s depth and breadth in the work of Latinx and Caribbean creators such as Mayra Santos-Febres, Rita Indiana, Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa, and the Border of Lights collective. Combining methodologies from literary studies, anthropology, history, and religious studies, Rebeca L. Hey-Colón’s interdisciplinary study traces how Latinx and Caribbean cultural production draws on systems of Afro-diasporic worship—Haitian Vodou, La 21 División (Dominican Vodou), and Santería/Regla de Ocha—to channel the power of water, both salty and sweet, in sustaining connections between past, present, and not-yet-imagined futures.

Rebeca L. Hey-Colón is an assistant professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Temple University.

Acknowledgements
Prologue. Infusing the Sacred: The Liquid Knowledges of the Afro-Diasporic World
Chapter 1. Channeling the Undocumented in Mayra Santos-Febres’s boat people
Chapter 2. The Techno-Resonances of Rita Indiana’s La mucama de Omicunlé
Chapter 3. Afro-Diasporic Currents in the Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa Papers
Chapter 4. Orishas in the Borderlands
Epilogue. Water and Light: The Bóveda as Counter-Archive
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Latinx: The Future Is Now
Zusatzinfo 7 b&w images
Verlagsort Austin, TX
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 399 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Romanistik
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 1-4773-2725-8 / 1477327258
ISBN-13 978-1-4773-2725-8 / 9781477327258
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