Tag: Caribbean

Vestida de Pena: Embodied Experiences of Afro-Spiritual Knowledge in Mayra Santos-Febres and Rita Indiana

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Renata Pontes In this paper I analyze embodied experiences of Afro-Spiritual knowledge in Sirena Selena vestida de pena (Santos-Febres, 2000) and La mucama de Omicunlé (Indiana, 2015). Affirming the body and its potential, these literary works participate in “Black Atlantic” cultures and political economies—in transoceanic networks prompted by practices that claim African American traditions. Applying …

Dances in Cimarronaje: Sonic Errantry and the Fugitive Aesthetics of Dominican Dembow

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Gisabel Leonardo The contours of Latin America and the Caribbean, the borders that define terra firma against terra infirma, are inherently unstable. For those of the Spanish-speaking Caribbean and its diaspora, this is known. The incertitude of belonging, the impulse to carve out entire populations on the basis of geographic, linguistic, ethnic, and/or racial difference, …