Reading Between the Lines: The Bible in the African American Neo-Slave Narrative

With a focus on Edward P. Jones’s The Known World (2003), James McBride’s Song Yet Sung (2008), and Toni Morrison’s A Mercy (2003), the article examines how neo-slave narratives frame their discussions of the past in order to define future debates about race, culture, and academic politics. It is in...

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Main Author: Bassard, Katherine Clay 1959- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: University of Otago, Department of Theology and Religion [2014]
In: Relegere
Year: 2014, Volume: 4, Issue: 2, Pages: 159-175
Further subjects:B Slavery
B neo-slave narrative
B King James Bible
B African American literature
B Hermeneutics
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