Donald H. Matthews

Honoring the Ancestors

An African Cultural Interpretation of Black Religion and Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

Because the Negro spiritual is the earliest extant body of African-American folk religious narration, Donald H. Matthews believes that it holds the key to understanding African-American religion. In Honoring the Ancestors he explores the works of such seminal black scholars as W. E. B. DuBois, Melville Herskovits, and Zora Neale Hurston, tracing the early development of the African-centered approach to the interpretation of African-Americanreligion.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 249g
• ISBN-13: 9780199963997
• ISBN-10: 0199963991
• Artikelnr.: 52154762

Autorenporträt

Donald H. Matthews is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Naropa University.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1. Interpretation and the African American Situation
* 2. Cultural Contact and Cultural Space: The Dialectics of Negation
and Resistance
* 3. A Theology of the Spirituals: The Spirituals as Postmodern
Discource
* 4. Black Literary Criticism and Narrative Hermeneutics
* 5. An Analysis of All God's Dangers Based on the Spirituals
* 6. The Spirituals: An African Cultural Narrative Theology
* Postscript
* Notes
* Bibliography
* Index