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

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