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WITCHES, GODDESSES, AND ANGRY SPIRITS IBD

MAHA MAROUAN
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY PRES
10 / 2020
9780814256633
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Sinopsis

Witches, Goddesses and Angry Spirits: The Politics of Spiritual Liberation in African Diaspora WomenâÇÖs Fiction explores African diaspora religious practices as vehicles for Africana womenâÇÖs 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. á Author Maha Marouan argues that while these authorsâÇÖ 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 womenâÇÖs realities and experiences of violence, often as a result of gendered religious discourses. To make sense of Africana womenâÇÖs 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 identifies crucial shared thematic concerns regarding the authorsâÇÖ engagement with religious frameworks-some Judeo-Christian, some not-heretofore unexamined in such a careful, comparative fashion.