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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.
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| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780812983845 |
| ISBN 10 | 081298384X |
| Title | The Work |
| Author | Wes Moore |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2015-07-21 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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