Recovering the African Feminine Divine in Literature, the Arts, and Practice Yemonja Awakening

Table of Contents

Introduction - Ifakayode Faniyi, Eric Bridges, Sheila Smith McKoy, and LaJuan Simpson-Wilkey

Yemonja: Definitions and Practice

Chapter 1 The Opulent Mother: A Brief Discussion of Yemonja and her Worship in Yorùbáland -Eric M. Bridges

Chapter 2 Yemonja and The Dark Waters of the Subconscious: Reflections on an Africana Archetype - Tarell Kyles

Chapter 3 Iyemonja, Omi Jori: Our Mother, Leader of the Waters - Iya Osundamisi Fafunke

Chapter 4 Yemonja Braidings in Obeah Practices in the Anglophone Caribbean - Sandra Gonsalves-Domond

Chapter 5 What does it mean to be a traditional priestess? Interrogating Women's Engagement with the Divine - Grace Sintim Adasi

Yemonja: Literature, Media, Film

Chapter 6 Yemonja/Yemoja/Yemaya Rising: The Feminine Divine in Music, Fiction, and Media - Sheila Smith McKoy

Chapter 7 The Water of the Womb: The Unseen Power of Yemonja in James Baldwin's If Beale Street Could Talk - Michael Lindsay

Chapter 8 Spirit, Passion and Sufferance: Articulations of Yemoja through Janie Crawford in Their Eyes Were Watching God and Velma Henry in The Salt Eaters - Khalilah Ali

Chapter 9 A Small Piece of Blue Fabric: Manifestations of Yemonja as a Site of Generational Healing in Phyllis Alesia Perry's Stigmata - Griselda Thomas

Chapter 10 Glimpses of Yemaya from Literary and Cultural Foremothers - Leah Creque