The Talking Book: African Americans and the BibleYale University Press, 01/10/2008 - 295 páginas A striking narrative of the Bible’s central role in African-American history from the early days of slavery to the present The Talking Book casts the Bible as the central character in a vivid portrait of black America, tracing the origins of African-American culture from slavery’s secluded forest prayer meetings to the bright lights and bold style of today’s hip-hop artists. The Bible has profoundly influenced African Americans throughout history. From a variety of perspectives this wide-ranging book is the first to explore the Bible’s role in the triumph of the black experience. Using the Bible as a foundation, African Americans shared religious beliefs, created their own music, and shaped the ultimate key to their freedom—literacy. Allen Callahan highlights the intersection of biblical images with African-American music, politics, religion, art, and literature. The author tells a moving story of a biblically informed African-American culture, identifying four major biblical images—Exile, Exodus, Ethiopia, and Emmanuel. He brings these themes to life in a unique African-American history that grows from the harsh experience of slavery into a rich culture that endures as one of the most important forces of twenty-first-century America. |
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... early as 1819. In 1832 , less than a year after the Nat Turner rebellion , the Episcopalian rice planters of Waccamaw , South Carolina , established their own mission to their slaves and retained a twenty - eight - year - old English ...
... Early African- American literature is marked by the appearance of the silent page, what literary critic Henry Louis Gates, Jr., in a classic analysis has identified as the trope of the Talking Book.38 The first occurrence of the Talking ...
... earliest literate slaves . Several claimed to have acquired literacy by the grace of Providence alone . The highest aspiration of African slave John Jea was to read the Bible for himself in English and Dutch , the languages of ...
... early insistence on his humanity had been repeatedly rewarded with the lash, and his education had begun with clandestine snatches of letters. Only by Herculean effort had he taught himself to read as an adult, and only to discover what ...
... early discerned a spirit of justice in the Bible, they discovered in the same moment that the letter of Holy Writ was sometimes at war with its spirit. The Bible is a book of contradictions. In its myth of origins and subsequent rules ...
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5 Exodus | 83 |
6 Ethiopia | 138 |
7 Emmanuel | 185 |
Postscript | 240 |
Notes | 247 |
Subject Index | 275 |
Scripture Index | 284 |
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The Talking Book: African Americans and the Bible Allen Dwight Callahan Pré-visualização indisponível - 2006 |