Witches, Goddesses, and Angry SpiritsAuthor :
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Witches, Goddesses and Angry Spirits: The Politics of Spiritual Liberation in African Diaspora Womens Fiction explores African diaspora religious practices as vehicles for Africana womens 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 womens realities and experiences of violence, often as a result of gendered religious discourses. To make sense of Africana womens 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 authors engagement with religious frameworks-some Judeo-Christian, some not-heretofore unexamined in such a careful, comparative fashion.
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