Rebeca L. Hey-Colón’s new e book, Channeling Knowledges: Water and Afro-Diasporic Spirits in Latinx and Caribbean Worlds, will likely be revealed by the College of Texas Press in Might. [Use code UTXNACCS for 30% off.]
Yomaira Figueroa-Vásquez (affiliate professor of World Afro-Diaspora Research/English, Michigan State College) describes the e book: “By a deep and cautious examine of Afro-syncretic ritual practices, Puerto Rican poetics, Dominican literary fiction, Chicana archives, and Haitian and Dominican remembrance practices, Hey-Colón ushers us into the expansive prospects of water as sanctuary, techno-resonance, and regeneration. A transferring contribution to the examine of Latina texts and religious practices, Channeling Knowledges provides a obligatory entryway right into a set of methods, practices, and imaginations that unsettle facile understandings of Afro-diasporic worldviews in up to date Caribbean and Latinx cultural and social productions and, in so doing, reveal vital features of our entwined futures.”
Description: How water allows Caribbean and Latinx writers and artists to connect with their pasts, presents, and futures.
Water is commonly tasked with upholding division by means of the imposition of geopolitical borders. We see this within the building of the Rio Grande/Río Bravo on the US-Mexico border, in addition to in how the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean are used to delineate the bounds of US territory. In stark distinction to this divisive view, Afro-diasporic religions conceive of water as a spot of connection; it’s the place religious entities and ancestors reside, and the place data awaits.
Departing from the premise that water encourages confluence by means of the sustainment of contradiction, Channeling Knowledges fathoms water’s depth and breadth within the work of Latinx and Caribbean creators comparable to Mayra Santos-Febres, Rita Indiana, Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa, and the Border of Lights collective. Combining methodologies from literary research, anthropology, historical past, and non secular research, Rebeca L. Hey-Colón’s interdisciplinary examine traces how Latinx and Caribbean cultural manufacturing attracts on methods of Afro-diasporic worship—Haitian Vodou, La 21 División (Dominican Vodou), and Santería/Regla de Ocha—to channel the ability of water, each salty and candy, in sustaining connections between previous, current, and not-yet-imagined futures.
Rebeca L. Hey-Colón is an assistant professor within the Division of Spanish and Portuguese at Temple College. For extra data, see https://utpress.utexas.edu/9781477327258/channeling-knowledges/