Maha Marouan is associate professor in the department of Gender and Race Studies and the director of the African American Studies program at the University of Alabama.
"Maha Marouan beautifully illumines the strategies of Edwidge
Danticat, Toni Morrison, and Maryse Condé in reconstructing
religions of the African diaspora as models of female liberation,
inscribing black female spirituality into history and effectively
addressing social injustice. She gets hold of the thrust of these
three novelists and demonstrates how they compose fresh models of
female spirituality, invoke groundbreaking cultural associations
and forms of religious creolization, and generate new spiritual
assurance for Africana women. Thus, Marouan presents us with a
powerful work appealing to scholars and students in religion,
cultural studies, literature, and diaspora studies." --Jacob K.
Olupona, professor of African and African American Studies at
Harvard University and African Religious Traditions at Harvard
Divinity School
"This is clearly a fine, talented young scholar. She is innovative
in her approach to literature, ranging across disciplines to open a
discussion of diaspora identity that is badly needed. This work,
with its attention to multiple methods, theories, and media, will
open an important discussion in African and African Diaspora
Studies." --Carolyn Jones Medine, associate professor in the
Department of Religion and in the Institute for African American
Studies at the University of Georgia
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