Queering Black Atlantic Religions : Transcorporeality in Candomblé, Santería, and Vodou (Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People)

Strongman, Roberto

Duke University Press（2019/05発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 277 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781478001973
• DDC分類 299.67

Full Description

In Queering Black Atlantic Religions Roberto Strongman examines Haitian Vodou, Cuban LucumÍ/SanterÍa, and Brazilian CandomblÉ to demonstrate how religious rituals of trance possession allow humans to understand themselves as embodiments of the divine. In these rituals, the commingling of humans and the divine produces gender identities that are independent of biological sex. As opposed to the Cartesian view of the spirit as locked within the body, the body in Afro-diasporic religions is an open receptacle. Showing how trance possession is a primary aspect of almost all Afro-diasporic cultural production, Strongman articulates transcorporeality as a black, trans-Atlantic understanding of the human psyche, soul, and gender as multiple, removable, and external to the body.

Contents

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction: Enter the Igbodu  1
Part I. Vodou
1. Of Dreams and Night Mares: Vodou Women Queering the Body  27
2. Hector Hyppolite Èl MÊme: Between Queer Fetishization and Vodou Self-Portraiture  49
Part II. LucumÍ/SanterÍa
3. A Chronology of Queer LucumÍ Scholarship: Degeneracy, Ambivalence, Transcorporeality  103
4. LucumÍ Diasporic Ethnography: Fran, Cabrera, Lam  133
Part III. CandomblÉ
5. Queer CandomblÉ Scholarship and Dona Flor's S/Exua/lity  181
6. Transatlantic Waters of OxalÁ: Pierre Verger, MÁrio de Andrade, and CandomblÉ in Europe  212
Conclusion: Transcripturality  251
Notes  255
References  261
Index  273