List of Illustrations and Other Media Acknowledgments Note on Terminology and Orthography Introduction: Introducing Yemoja Solimar Otero and Toyin Falola Part 1. Yemoja, Gender, and Sexuality Invocación / Invocation En busca de un amnte desempleado / Searching for an unemployed lover Pedro R. P é rez-Sarduy 1. Nobody's Mammy: Yemayá as Fierce Foremother in Afro-Cuban Religions Elizabeth P é rez 2. Yemayá's Duck: Irony, Ambivalence, and the Effeminate Male Subject in Cuban Santería Aisha M. Beliso-De Jes ú s 3. Yemay á y Och ú n : Queering the Vernacular Logics of the Waters Solimar Otero 4. A Different Kind of Sweetness: Yemayá in Afro-Cuban Religion Martin Tsang 5.

Yemoja: An Introduction to the Divine Mother and Water Goddess Allison P. Sellers Part 2. Yemoja ' s Aesthetics: Creative Expression in Diaspora 6. "Yemaya Blew That Wire Fence Down": Invoking African Spiritualties in Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza and the Mural Art of Juana Alicia Micaela D í az-S á nchez 7. Dancing Ach é with Yemaya in My Life and in My Art: An Artist Statement Arturo Lindsay 8. What the Water Brings and Takes Away: The Work of Marìa Magdalena Campos Pons Alan West-Dur á n 9. "The Sea Never Dies": Yemoja: The Infinitely Flowing Mother Force of Africana Literature and Cinema Teresa N. Washington 10.

A Sonic Portrait with Photos of Salvador's Iemanjá Festival Jamie N. Davidson and Nelson Eubanks 11. Yemaya Offering a Pearl of Wisdom: An Artist Statement Erin Dean Colcord Notes on Contributors Index.