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  • Solimar Otero Book Talk, “Archives of Conjure”

Book Presentation: Archives of Conjure by Solimar Otero

Thursday, October 22, 2020, 4:00 PM – ,

Virtual

Zoom Registration Link: https://iu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYld-qvrjIjHtwtH4oaW4qLf4jLRnUN-1Uz

 

In Afrolatinx religious practices such as Cuban Espiritismo, Puerto Rican Santería, and Brazilian Candomblé, the dead tell stories. Communicating with and through mediums’ bodies, they give advice, make requests, and propose future rituals, creating a living archive that is coproduced by the dead. Solimar Otero's Archives of Conjure (Columbia University Press 2020), explores how Afrolatinx spirits guide collaborative spiritual-scholarly activist work through rituals and the creation of material culture. By examining spirit mediumship through a Caribbean cross-cultural poetics, she shows how divinities and ancestors serve as active agents in shaping the experiences of gender, sexuality, and race. 

 

Part of the Special November Series, Afrolatin Coalitions in Culture and the Arts

Sponsored by: LATS and Latin American Music Center

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