Feminine Immortalization: Georgina Herrera’s Poetic Restructuring of Yoruban Orisha Power Dynamics

This paper situates the poetry of Georgina Herrera within the larger contexts of global racial, gender, and religious discourses. eugenist rhetoric that saturates Cuban cultural consciousness. The poems “Dios de me casa y de mi sangre/ God of My Home and of My Blood,” “Ibu Sedi,” and “Iya” in particular are examined for their representation of Herrera’s religious and gendered subversion of colonial attempts at the erasure of black experience in Cuba. This research highlights the way Georgina