The Work by Wes Moore

The Work by Wes Moore

Witches, Goddesses and Angry Spirits: The Politics of Spiritual Liberation in African Diaspora Women s Fiction explores African diaspora religious practices as vehicles for Africana women s 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 Conde.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 women s realities and experiences of violence, often as a result of gendered religious discourses. To make sense of Africana women s 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.

WES MOORE is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and was a Rhodes Scholar. Heserved as a paratrooper and captain in the U.S. Army in Afghanistan and as a White House Fellow in the U.S. Department of State. He is executive producer of the three-part PBS series Coming Back with Wes Moore. Moore was named one of the top young business leaders in America and has appeared on the cover of Time magazine, which featured him in the article The New Greatest Generation. Wes lives in Baltimore with his wife and daughter.

From the Hardcover edition.

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ISBN 13	9780812983845
ISBN 10	081298384X
Titel	The Work
Autor	Wes Moore
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Random House USA Inc
Erscheinungsjahr	2015-07-21
Seitenanzahl	272
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