Roberto Strongman is Associate Professor of Comparative Caribbean Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Enter the Igbodu 1
Part I. Vodou
1. Of Dreams and Night Mares: Vodou Women Queering the Body 27
2. Hector Hyppolite èl Même: Between Queer Fetishization and Vodou Self-Portraiture 49
Part II. Lucumí/Santería
3. A Chronology of Queer Lucumí Scholarship: Degeneracy, Ambivalence, Transcorporeality 103
4. Lucumí Diasporic Ethnography: Fran, Cabrera, Lam 133
Part III. Candomblé
5. Queer Candomblé Scholarship and Dona Flor's S/Exua/lity 181
6. Transatlantic Waters of Oxalá: Pierre Verger, Mário de Andrade, and Candomblé in Europe 212
Conclusion: Transcripturality 251
Notes 255
References 261
Index 273
Finalist, 2020 Lambda Literary Award (Lammy) in the LGBTQ Studies category
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