American Prophecy : Race and Redemption in American Political Culture /
Prophecy is the fundamental idiom of American politics--a biblical rhetoric about redeeming the crimes, suffering, and promise of a special people. Yet American prophecy and its great practitioners--from Frederick Douglass and Henry Thoreau to Martin Luther King, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison--ar...
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
2008.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introducing Jeremiah's legacy : placing prophecy in American politics and political theory
- Thoreau, the reluctant prophet : moral witness and poetic vision in politics
- Interlude : from Henry Thoreau to Martin Luther King Jr. and James Baldwin : race and prophecy
- Martin Luther King Jr.'s theistic prophecy : love, sacrifice, and democratic politics
- James Baldwin and the racial state of exception : secularizing prophecy?
- Toni Morrison and prophecy : "this is not a story to pass on"
- Conclusion : prophecy as vernacular political theology.