The Ethiopian prophecy in Black American letters:
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1. Verfasser: Kay, Roy (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Gainesville University Press of Florida ©2011
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Online-Zugang:DE-1046
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction: the inch and ells of Psalm 68:31 -- Early Jewish and Christian figures of Ethiopia -- Managing Blackness: Protestant readings of Psalm 68:31 in colonial America -- Uplifting Ethiopia in America: conversion, self-consciousness, and the figure of Ethiopia -- Missionary emigrationism: Psalm 68:31 and uplifting the Ethiopians in Africa -- Psalm 68:31 and the fight for freedom and equality in antebellum America -- Reading for independence: the figure of Ethiopia and the new Africa -- Rewriting Psalm 68:31: narrative formations of Ethiopia -- Figural exhaustion: parodying the figures of Ethiopia -- Conclusion: reading and refiguring the figures of Ethiopia
Utilizing examples from Richard Allen, Maria W. Stewart, Kate Drumgoold, Phillis Wheatley, Martin Delany, W.E.B. DuBois, Marcus Garvey, and Ralph Ellison, Kay reveals the wide variety of ways this verse has been interpreted and conceptualized in African American history and letters for more than two hundred years. &
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 258 pages)
ISBN:0813037328
0813040515
9780813037325
9780813040516

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