[PDF.05tj] (Re)writing Osun: Osun in the Politics of Gender, Race and Sexuality - From Colonization to Creolization

(Re)writing Osun: Osun in the Politics of Gender, Race and Sexuality - From Colonization to Creolization

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 | #4023406 in Books |  2008-06-21 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.25 x5.50 x.50l,.55 | File type: PDF | 210 pages

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Mediocre...|By Darasia Selby|When I first began reading this book, I was thrilled that an author was not only challenging some of the limited depictions of Oshun, but that she also willing to argue a feminist approach using Oshun as the the center focus.

While I think Ms. Alarcon certainly did challenge the view of the Oshun as a "sex goddess," I wish that she would

Known to practitioners and scholars as the Yoruba goddess of sweet (waters), sensuality, fertility and delight, Osun is a deity of great controversy. Nigerians see her as an astute, responsible mother of many children, yet across the ocean in the New World she has become a promiscuous, fun-loving deity who abandons her children and gives them to Yemaya to raise. Alarcns research analyzes the diverse representations of Osun (as a metaphor for women) found in trans-nationa...

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