The Talking Book: African Americans and the BibleYale University Press, 2008 M10 1 - 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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... Henry Highland Garnet, Frederick Douglass, Richard Allen, and the abolitionist firebrand David Walker all assert that “heathenism” was predominant in the slave community.7 Never- theless the impact of Protestant Evangelicalism on ...
... Henry Louis Gates, Jr., in a classic analysis has identified as the trope of the Talking Book.38 The first occurrence of the Talking Book is the memoir of freed Af- rican slave James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, A Narrative of the Most ...
... Henry Highland Garnet engaged in public debate over a campaign to solicit funds to provide Bibles for slaves in the South. Their confrontation was a rematch of sorts. The two had first debated in Buffalo, New York, in 1843. At that time ...
... Henry carried a knife to defend himself from slave catchers as he walked through the streets of New York on his way to school. Later, as a student of Noyes Academy in Canaan, New Hampshire, Garnet fired a shotgun through the window of ...
... Henry Highland Garnet . Garnet , for his part , saw the critical spirit of the Bible as irrepressible : to make the Bible available to slaves in the South was tantamount to making a gift of the book of Southern Christianity that bore ...
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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 Sin vista previa disponible - 2006 |
The Talking Book: African Americans and the Bible Allen Dwight Callahan Sin vista previa disponible - 2006 |