Struggles Over the Word: Race and Religion in O'Connor, Faulkner, Hurston, and WrightMercer University Press, 2000 - 162 trang This literary critical study counters the usual tendency to segregate Southern literature from African American literary studies. Noting that William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor are classified as Southern writers, whereas Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright are considered black authors, Timothy P. Caron argues for an integrated study of the South's literary culture. He shows that the interaction of Southern religion and race binds these four writers together. Caron broadens our understanding of Southern literature to include both white and African American voices. Analyzing O'Connor's Wise Blood, Faulkner's Light in August, Hurston's Moses, Man of the Mountain, and Wright's Uncle Tom's Children, Caron shows that these writers share an intertwined concern for issues of race and religion. These two significant components of Southern culture form the intertextual network that binds together such seemingly disparate texts. These authors not only interact among themselves in acknowledged and unacknowledged ways, but also with the South's discursive practices. Most particularly, Caron sees common struggles over the Word, as he investigates how these writers use the Bible in their understandings of race and religion in the American South. While all four authors argue for the centrality of the Bible in both the black and white Southern experience, each offers a different view of how this iconic text has shaped Southern culture and its literature. |
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African African-American anagogical Baptist belief Bible biblical hermeneutic biblical interpretation black blood black church Blotner Bright and Morning characters Christ Christian Christmas's communist community's concerns conjuring CPUSA critics death deliverance Doc Hines dominant religiosity Eatonville editor emphasized Enoch Emery essay evangelical faith Faulkner Flannery O'Connor folklore God's gospel Haze Hazel Motes Hebrews hope-bringer Hurston's Moses Ibid interpretive communities intertextual Israelites Jefferson Jesus Joe Christmas Joe's John liberation Light in August literary lynching Morning Star Mountain Mulattoes myth of Ham narrative nigger novel O'Connor's fiction Old Testament oppression political preaching Promised Protestant South Protestantism racial racist interpretive community readers redemption region's reveal revoices Richard Wright salvation Scriptures slavery slaves social Southern blacks Southern literature Southern Protestants Southern white spiritual struggle Taylor theology tradition Uncle Tom's Children University Press violence vision white church white South's white South's racist William Faulkner Wise Blood Writing Zora Neale Hurston
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Trang 65 - And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard; And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
Trang 108 - And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the Lord.
Trang 40 - And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye ' Or how wilt thou (Say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye : and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
Trang 37 - By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him, for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
Trang 75 - Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh." If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this...
Trang 101 - And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren. And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.
Trang 76 - Then his face, body, all, seemed to collapse, to fall in upon itself, and from out the slashed garments about his hips and loins the pent black blood seemed to rush like a released breath. It seemed to rush out of his pale body like the rush of sparks from a rising rocket; upon that black blast the man seemed to rise soaring into their memories forever and ever.
Trang 75 - Wherefore, if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet, to be cast into everlasting fire.
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