Archives of Conjure: Stories of the Dead in Afrolatinx Cultures (Gender, Theory, and Religion) by Solimar Otero
English | May 31st, 2020 | ISBN: 0231194331, 0231194323 | 264 pages | EPUB | 40.69 MB
In Afrolatinx religious practices such as Cuban Espiritismo, Puerto Rican SanterĂa, and Brazilian CandomblĂ©, the dead tell stories. Communicating with and through mediums' bodies, they give advice, make requests, and propose future rituals, creating a living archive that is coproduced by the dead. In this book, Solimar Otero explores how Afrolatinx spirits guide collaborative spiritual-scholarly activist work through rituals and the creation of material culture. By examining spirit mediumship through a Caribbean cross-cultural poetics, she shows how divinities and ancestors serve as active agents in shaping the experiences of gender, sexuality, and race.