Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas: Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition B de Bolsillo during which

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Spanning the spectrum of genre and form--from elegy and ode to origin myth--these poems elaborate an aesthetics of repair

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Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas: Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition B de Bolsillo during whichThis volume demonstrates how, from the beginning of the Atlantic slave trade, enslaved and free Africans in the Americas used Catholicism and Christian derived celebrations as spaces for autonomous cultural expression, social organization, and political empowerment. Their appropriation of Catholic based celebrations calls into question the long held idea that Africans and their descendants in the diaspora either resignedly accepted Christianity or