Katie's Canon : Womanism and the Soul of the Black Community, Revised and Expanded 25th Anniversary Edition /

Over the years, Katie Cannon's students referred to her work in progress as ""Katie's canon."" Not only does this book represent the canon of Cannon's best work; the book itself directly addresses the issues of canon formation and canon reformation. Cannon canonize...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Cannon, Katie G.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Fortress Press, [2021]
Edición:Revised and Expanded 25th Anniversary Edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Women and literature.
Womanism in literature.
Feminism and literature.
Ethics in literature.
Community life in literature.
Canon (Literature)
African Americans in literature.
African American women > Intellectual life.
African American women in literature.
Women and literature > United States > History.
Feminism and literature > United States > History.
American literature > Women authors > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
United States.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword by Sara Lawrence-­Lightfoot
  • Foreword to the Twenty-­Fifth Anniversary Edition by Emilie M. Townes
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Part One: Womanism as Unapologetic Moral Agency of Black Women Grounded in Consciousness, Critique, and Creativity
  • 1. Surviving the Blight
  • 2. The Emergence of Black Feminist Consciousness
  • 3. Moral Wisdom in the Black Women's Literary Tradition
  • 4. Unctuousness as Virtue: According to the Life of Zora Neale Hurston
  • Part Two: Womanism as Indivisibly Inclusive Approach to Justice Making Essential to Survival and Wholeness of Entire People, Male and Female
  • 5. Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: The Womanist Dilemma in the Development of a Black Liberation Ethic
  • 6. Appropriation and Reciprocity in the Doing of Womanist Ethics
  • 7. Womanist Interpretation and Preaching in the Black Church
  • 8. Sexing Black Women: Liberation from the Prison House of Anatomical Authority
  • Part Three: Womanism as Defiant Affirmation of Loving Our Own Sources, Stories, and Culture, Regardless
  • 9. Exposing My Home Point of View
  • 10. Resources for a Constructive Ethic: The Life and Work of Zora Neale Hurston
  • 11. Teaching Afrocentric Ethics: "The Hinges upon Which the Future Swings"
  • 12. Racism and Economics: The Perspective of Oliver C. Cox
  • Part Four: Womanism as Continual Moral Commitment to Participate in Critical and Constructive Movements of the Dance of Redemption in Order to "Remember What We Never Knew"
  • 13. Slave Ideology and Biblical Interpretation
  • 14. "The Wounds of Jesus": Justification of Goodness in the Face of Manifold Evil
  • 15. Metalogues and Dialogues: Teaching the Womanist Idea
  • 16. Unearthing Ethical Treasures: The Intrusive Markers of Social Class
  • Conclusion: Womanist Perspectival Discourse and Canon Formation

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