Vincent L. Wimbush

Black Flesh Matters (eBook, PDF)

Essays on Runagate Interpretation

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

These essays, written over more than thirty years of Vincent L. Wimbush's career as a scholar, provide a response to the nearly universal, persistent, and sedimented modern-world hyper-signification of Black flesh, always needing to be framed, humiliated, policed, and dirtied. Because Wimbush is a scholar of religion as culture-having to do with social practices and their psycho-politics as regimes of knowledge, discourse, formation, and power relations-his ex-centric transdisciplinary interest in scriptures has been viewed, in some circles, as controversial. Yet it is Wimbush's linkage of the modern hyper-signification of Black flesh-leading to racialization and racism, especially anti-Black racism-to the scriptural as shorthand for discourse and relations of power that makes this work compelling.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 420
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978784918
• Artikelnr.: 74846416

Autorenporträt

Vincent L. Wimbush is an internationally recognized scholar of religion, with more than thirty years of professional teaching, research, and scholarly organizational program experience. He is founding director of The Institute for Signifying Scriptures, a forum for transdisciplinary research, conversation, and programming.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Cursus Fugae: Frenzied Soundings and Threatening Gestures;
or, the Making of an Undisciplined/Black-Fleshed Maroon
Part I. Contemptus Mundi; or, Hos Me: Initiation into a Discursive
Formation
1. Contemptus Mundi: Social Power of an Ancient Rhetorics and Worldview
(1992)
2. Ascetic Behavior and Color-ful Language: Stories About Ethiopian Moses
(1992)
3. Not of This World: Early Christianities as Rhetorical and Social
Formation (1996)
4. Like a Ship that's Tossed and Driven: The Ascetics of Social Formation
(2001)
5. Contemptus Mundi: The Dialectics of Modern Formation
Part II. "Hitting a Lick With a Crooked Stick"; Or, Reading Darkness,
Reading Scriptures: Oblique Critique of the Discursive Formation
6. Reading Darkness, Reading Scriptures: African Americans and the Bible-A
Disturbing Conjunction and a Defiant Question (2000)
7. "Naturally Veiled and Half Articulate": Scriptures, Modernity, and the
Formation of African America (2008)
8. "No modern Joshua": Nationalization, Scr