American prophecy : race and redemption in American political culture /

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"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 Morr...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Shulman, George M.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2008.
Subjects:
Bible. > Old Testament > Prophecies.
Bible. > Old Testament.
Political culture > United States.
Prophecy.
Prophecy in literature.
Prophétie.
Prophétie dans la littérature.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > General.
Political culture.
Race relations.
United States > Race relations.
États-Unis > Relations raciales.
United States.
Prophecies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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