Joseph investigates the intersections of history, literature, race, religion, decolonization, and freedom that led to the founding of the postcolonial state of Haiti in 1804. Topics range from Makandal's postcolonial religious imagination to Boukman's liberation theology to Langston Hughes' discussion of the role of prophetic religion in the Haitian Revolution.
Joseph investigates the intersections of history, literature, race, religion, decolonization, and freedom that led to the founding of the postcolonial state of Haiti in 1804. Topics range from Makandal's postcolonial religious imagination to Boukman's liberation theology to Langston Hughes' discussion of the role of prophetic religion in the Haitian Revolution.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Celucien L. Joseph is associate professor of English at Indian River State College. His most recent books include Revolutionary Change and Democratic Religion: Christianity, Vodou, and Secularism (2020), and Theologizing in Black: On Africana Theological Ethics and Anthropology (2020).
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Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Interpreting and Engaging the Haitian Revolution 1 An Appraisal of Recent Scholarship on the Haitian Revolution 2 The Rhetoric of Prayer: Dutty Boukman, the Discourse of "Freedom from Below," and the Politics of God 3 Prophetic Religion, Violence, and Black Freedom: Reading Makandal's Project of Black Liberation through A Fanonian Postcolonial Lens of Decolonization and Theory of Revolutionary Humanism 4 "A City Upon a Hill": Haiti, Religion, and Race: Frederick Douglass' Freedom Discourse and the Significance of the Haitian Revolution as a Freedom Event in Modernity 5 The Spirit of Revolution, the Spirit of Black Freedom: The Representation of the Haitian Revolution and the Function of Black Religion in Langston Hughes' Emperor of Haiti Bibliography Index About the Author
Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Interpreting and Engaging the Haitian Revolution 1 An Appraisal of Recent Scholarship on the Haitian Revolution 2 The Rhetoric of Prayer: Dutty Boukman, the Discourse of "Freedom from Below," and the Politics of God 3 Prophetic Religion, Violence, and Black Freedom: Reading Makandal's Project of Black Liberation through A Fanonian Postcolonial Lens of Decolonization and Theory of Revolutionary Humanism 4 "A City Upon a Hill": Haiti, Religion, and Race: Frederick Douglass' Freedom Discourse and the Significance of the Haitian Revolution as a Freedom Event in Modernity 5 The Spirit of Revolution, the Spirit of Black Freedom: The Representation of the Haitian Revolution and the Function of Black Religion in Langston Hughes' Emperor of Haiti Bibliography Index About the Author
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