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Beyond ontological blackness : an essay on African American religious and cultural criticism /

"In this study, Victor Anderson traces instances of 'ontological blackness' in African American theological, religious and cultural thought, arguing that African American critical thought has been trapped in a racial rhetoric that it did not create and which cannot serve it well. Draw...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Anderson, Victor, 1955- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016.
Series:Transatlantic Slave Trade: Bloomsbury Academic Collections.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; One: The Religious Functions of Cultural Criticism; Explicating Cultural Criticism; Religious Aspects of Cultural Criticism; Religious Criticism in a Racialized Culture; Two: Categorical Racism and Racial Apologe; Aesthetics and White Racial Ideology; Racial Apologetics; Beyond Categorical Racism and Racial Apologetics; Three: Ontological Blackness in Theol; The Black Theology Project; The Challenge of Womanist Theology.
  • Four: Explicating and Displacing Ontological Blackness: The Heroic and Grotesque in African American Cultural and Religious CriticismExplicating the Heroic and Grotesque Genius; New Literary Critiques of African American Expressive Culture; The Grotesquery of African American Public Life; Epilogue; Further Reading; Works Cited; Index.