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Witches, Goddesses And Angry Spirits: The Politics Of Spiritual Liberation In African Diaspora Women's Fiction Explores African Diaspora Religious Practices As Vehicles For Africana Women's Spiritual Transformation, Using Representative Fictions By Three Contemporary Writers Of The African Americas Who Compose Fresh Models Of Female Spirituality: Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994) By Haitian American Novelist Edwidge Danticat; Paradise (1998) By African American Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison; And I, Tituba, Black Witch Of Salem (1992) By Guadeloupean Author Maryse Condé. Author Maha Marouan Argues That While These Authors' Works Burst With Powerful Female Figures--witches, Goddesses, Healers, Priestesses, Angry Spirits--they Also Remain Honest In Reminding Readers Of The Silences Surrounding African Diaspora Women's Realities And Experiences Of Violence, Often As A Result Of Gendered Religious Discourses. To Make Sense Of Africana Women's Experiences Of The Diaspora, This Book Operates From A Transnational Perspective That Moves Across National And Linguistic Boundaries As It Connects The Anglophone, The Francophone, And The Creole Worlds Of The African Americas. In Doing So, Marouan Ident

Author

Maha Marouan; Project Muse

Publisher

The Ohio State University Press

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780814256633

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Fiction, Literary Fiction