Recovering The African Feminine Divine In Literature The Arts And Practice

Author : LaJuan Simpson-Wilkey,Sheila Smith McKoy,Eric M. Bridges
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781793640949

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Recovering the African Feminine Divine in Literature, the Arts, and Practice by LaJuan Simpson-Wilkey,Sheila Smith McKoy,Eric M. Bridges Pdf

Recovering the African Feminine Divine in Literature, the Arts, and Performing Arts: Yemonja Awakening provides context to the myriad ways in which the African feminine divine is being reclaimed by scholars, practitioners and cultural scholars worldwide. This volume addresses the complex ways in which the reclamation of and recognition of Yemonja facilitates cultural survival and the formation of African -centric identity. These cultural practices are symbolically represented by Yemonja, the African female deity who is the mother of the entire world of the Orisha. Also known as Yemaya, Iemanya and Yemaya-Olokun, Yemonja is the deity whose province is the ocean and, given that the Middle Passage was the cultural and spatial crossroad to Africa’s numerous diasporas, this deity links the shared histories of African and African –descent cultural praxis worldwide. Since Yemonja also references sexual, creative, spatial and spiritual energies, the editors and contributors see her as pivotal to this project as an expansive and original cartography of impact of the African feminine divine globally. This work provides the context for understanding how the spiritual conceptualizations of the African feminine divine underpin critical cultural forms, even when it has been previously unacknowledged and despite the cultural encounters with European and Western models of being. Scholars of African diaspora studies and the arts will find this book particularly interesting.

Author : Charles Nwadigwe,Keneth Bamuturaki
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781527567856

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Voyages in Postcolonial African Theatre Practice by Charles Nwadigwe,Keneth Bamuturaki Pdf

Voyages in Postcolonial African Theatre Practice goes beyond the predictable academic discursive trips on postcolonial drama and theatre practice. In 14 unique but interrelated essays, this volume dissects the critical issues that envelop the practice of theatre in postcolonial Africa and the African Diaspora, and how practitioners engage with the trends which arise. The volume departs from the conventional theoretical constructs of humanistic studies and focuses on concrete realities that interface and interfere with the professional practice of African theatre, a creative industry confined by the historical and dialectical motifs of the colonial experience. Topics such as secondary adaptations, theatre training and pedagogy, censorship and performance politics, applied theatre, cultural policy and tourism, scenography, festivals and oral tradition, dance internationalisation, popular music, text and the African film reflect the broad coverage and diversity of this volume on African postcolonial theatre practices, from text to performance, planning to production.

Author : Sheila Smith McKoy,Patrick Elliot Alexander
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781603295925

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Teaching Literature and Writing in Prisons by Sheila Smith McKoy,Patrick Elliot Alexander Pdf

As the work of Malcolm X, Angela Y. Davis, and others has made clear, education in prison has enabled people to rethink systems of oppression. Courses in reading and writing help incarcerated students feel a sense of community, examine the past and present, and imagine a better future. Yet incarcerated students often lack the resources, materials, information, and opportunity to pursue their coursework, and training is not always available for those who teach incarcerated students. This volume will aid both new and experienced instructors by providing strategies for developing courses, for creating supportive learning environments, and for presenting and publishing incarcerated students' scholarly and creative work. It also suggests approaches to self-care designed to help instructors sustain their work. Essays incorporate the perspectives of both incarcerated and nonincarcerated teachers and students, centering critical prison studies scholarship and abolitionist perspectives. This volume contains discussion of Mumia Abu-Jamal's Live from Death Row, Marita Bonner's The Purple Flower, Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew and Othello.

Author : Anthony Sean Neal
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781793640529

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Philosophy and the Modern African American Freedom Struggle by Anthony Sean Neal Pdf

Philosophy and the Modern African American Freedom Struggle: A Freedom Gaze describes the ideas that defined the movement and struggle to be free by Black people in the United States during their Modern Era. Using a historical perspective, this work engages the question of how the historical experience of oppression and the denial of humanity created space for the development of a certain consciousness. The existence and demonstration of agency within the ideas of the African diaspora and the creation of an intentional community with the aim of defining and attaining freedom are dissected in order to understand the Black community as a whole during the modern era. This book was nominated for ​the 2023 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award in nonfiction.

Author : Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476647463

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Octavia E. Butler by Mary Ellen Snodgrass Pdf

Slow to rise in the literary world, Octavia Estelle Butler cultivated musings on earth's future, reaching massive critical acclaim in the process. This companion will complement book club discussions and classroom lessons for the closest possible readings of Butler's science fiction and her texts on racism and pollution. A maven of speculative fiction so prescient that it hovers between tocsin and prophecy, Butler survives through her print stories, essays, novels and musings on individualism and compromise. This book guides the reader on a variety of Butler pieces, from her most obscure titles to her historical entries and pieces that speculate upon science, metaphysics, linguistics, psychology, writing and religion. The text serves as a guide through the depths of Octavia Butler's works and reinforces the reasons for which her name so often appears on reading lists for higher learning.

Author : Larry L. W. Miles
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781666919585

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Afro and Indigenous Intersectionality in America as Nomen by Larry L. W. Miles Pdf

Afro and Indigenous Intersectionality in America as Nomen broadens the historical narrative of Indigenous, Autochthonous, and First World people who have been classified historically as Negro, Black, Colored, Afro, and African American. By addressing the ways in which the singular narrative of "slavery" codifies identity, this work moves beyond binary racial classifications and proposes the possibility of utilizing holistic historical narratives to foster group and personal identity.

Author : Vlad Petre Glăveanu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1812 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783030909130

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The Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Possible by Vlad Petre Glăveanu Pdf

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Possible represents a comprehensive resource for researchers and practitioners interested in an emerging multidisciplinary area within psychology and the social sciences: the study of how we engage with and cultivate the possible within self, society and culture. Far from being opposed either to the actual or the real, the possible engages with concrete facts and experiences, with the result of transforming them. This encyclopedia examines the notion of the possible and the concepts associated with it from standpoints within psychology, philosophy, sociology, neuroscience and logic, as well as multidisciplinary fields of research including anticipation studies, future studies, complexity theory and creativity research. Presenting multiple perspectives on the possible, the authors consider the distinct social, cultural and psychological processes - e.g., imagination, counterfactual thinking, wonder, play, inspiration, and many others - that define our engagement with new possibilities in domains as diverse as the arts, design and business.

Author : Fanny Brewster
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000899511

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Race and the Unconscious by Fanny Brewster Pdf

Race and the Unconscious engages the archetypal African consciousness that enriches our knowledge regarding the foundational mythopoetic of Africanist dreaming. Featuring crucial historical context, Jungian and post-Jungian theory, clinical case studies, and dream series interpretations, the book offers readers a rich framework for exploring and understanding the language, images, and symbols of African and African American dreamlife. It expands the modern understanding of dreaming with the inclusion of Africanist perspectives, philosophy, and mythology while emphasizing the potential for and process of psychological healing through dreamwork. Race and the Unconscious is a must-read for Jungian analysts and analytical psychologists in practice and in training, as well as anyone interested in understanding psychological processes inclusive of those of African descent and their culture, including academics and students of sociology, anthropology, African American studies, and African diaspora studies.

Author : Sheila Smith McKoy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1955239533

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The Bones Beneath by Sheila Smith McKoy Pdf

The poems in The Bones Beneath are rooted in two worlds: the world of lived experience and otherworldly places of dreams and incantations. This collection affirms the importance of art of social change, the urgency of justice, and connection.

Author : Molara Ogundipe-Leslie
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0865434123

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Re-creating Ourselves by Molara Ogundipe-Leslie Pdf

This book falls into two parts: the first part, theory, comprising theoretical essays on literature, women and society, leads into the second part, practice, which presents Ogundipe-Leslie's work as a social activist. Both parts are linked by her poetry.

Author : Anthonia C. Kalu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429650918

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Women, Literature and Development in Africa by Anthonia C. Kalu Pdf

This book is a powerful exploration of the role of women in the evolution of African thinking and narratives on development, from the precolonial period right through to the modern day. Whilst the book identifies women’s oppression and marginalization as significant challenges to contemporary Africa’s advancement, it also explores how new written narratives draw on traditional African knowledge systems to bring deep-rooted and sometimes radical approaches to progress. The book asserts that Africans must tell their own stories, expressed through the complex meanings and nuances of African languages and often conveyed through oral traditions and storytelling, in which women play an important role. The book’s close examination of language and meaning in the African narrative tradition advances the illumination and elevation of African storytelling as part of a viable and valid knowledge base in its own right, rather than as an extension of European paradigms and methods. Anthonia C. Kalu's new edition of this important book, fully revised throughout, will also include fresh analysis of the role of digital media, education, and religion in African narratives. At a time when the prominence and participation of African women in development and sociopolitical debates is growing, this book's exploration of their lived experiences and narrative contribution will be of interest to students of African literature, gender studies, development, history, and sociology.

Author : Sylvia Ardyn Boone
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300048610

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Radiance from the Waters by Sylvia Ardyn Boone Pdf

The Sande Society of the Mende people of Sierra Leone is a secret female regulatory society that both guards and transmits the ideals of feminine beauty so fundamental to the aesthetic criteria in Mende culture. In this eloquent and moving book, Sylvia Ardyn Boone describes the Society, its rituals and organization, and the mask worn by its members. Her book is an evocative account of Mende life and philosophy as well as a unique contribution to the study of African art, one based on African conceptions about the person and the human body. This is a beautiful and beautifully written book. ... Boone writes in ways that reveal her evident devotion to Mende culture.--John Picton, African Affairs A major contribution to our ethnographic understanding of Mende culture, and to understanding the way concepts of women's bodies encode cultural messages about gender relations.--E. Frances White, Women's Review of Books A respectful approach to [the mysteries of the Sande], by an art historian who has tiptoed where anthropologists feared to tread. Radiance from the Waters deserves to be read. ... It provides something more interesting than esoteric knowledge: an extended meditation on notions of beauty and decorum and the way in which these can be translated simultaneously into art and ... advancement for women.--John Ryle, London Review of Books The first text to illuminate the power of the feminine aesthetic in West African art.--Ms.

Author : Antoinette Pressley-Sanon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89090072844

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Reading Double-dutch by Antoinette Pressley-Sanon Pdf

Author : Scott Harrower
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781501511264

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Trauma and Recovery in Early North African Christianity by Scott Harrower Pdf

Powerful religious elements for living in the aftermath of trauma are embedded within North African Christian hagiographies. The texts of (1) The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity, (2) The Account of Montanus, Lucius, and their Companions, and (3) The Life of Cyprian of Carthage are stories that offered post traumatic pathways to recovery for its historical readership. These recovery-oriented beliefs and behaviors promoted positive religious coping strategies that revolved around a sense of safety, re-establishing community relationships, an integrated sense of self, and a hopeful story beyond trauma. This book vividly demonstrates that hagiographies played a vital therapeutic role in helping early Christian trauma survivors recover and flourish in the aftermath of disastrous persecutions.

Author : Amandina Lihamba
Publisher : Feminist Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015070697027

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Women Writing Africa by Amandina Lihamba Pdf

Third installment of major literary and scholarly project exposes East African women's history and culture.