The Word of the Lord Is Upon Me: The Righteous Performance of Martin Luther King, Jr. - Couverture rigide

Rieder, Jonathan

 
9780674028227: The Word of the Lord Is Upon Me: The Righteous Performance of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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ISBN 10 : 0674028228 ISBN 13 : 9780674028227
Editeur : The Belknap Press, 2008

Synopsis

"You don't know me," Martin Luther King, Jr., once declared to those who criticized his denunciation of the Vietnam War, who wanted to confine him to the ghetto of "black" issues. Now, forty years after being felled by an assassin's bullet, it is still difficult to take the measure of the man: apostle of peace or angry prophet; sublime exponent of a beloved community or fiery Moses leading his people up from bondage; black preacher or translator of blackness to the white world?This book explores the extraordinary performances through which King played with all of these possibilities, and others too, blending and gliding in and out of idioms and identities. Taking us deep into King's backstage discussions with colleagues, his preaching to black congregations, his exhortations in mass meetings, and his crossover addresses to whites, Jonathan Rieder tells a powerful story about the tangle of race, talk, and identity in the life of one of America's greatest moral and political leaders.A brilliant interpretive endeavor grounded in the sociology of culture, "The Word of the Lord Is Upon Me" delves into the intricacies of King's sermons, speeches, storytelling, exhortations, jokes, jeremiads, taunts, repartee, eulogies, confessions, lamentation, and gallows humor, as well as the author's interviews with members of King's inner circle. The King who emerges is a distinctively modern figure who, in straddling the boundaries of diverse traditions, ultimately transcended them all.

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À propos de l?auteur

Jonathan Rieder is Professor of Sociology at Barnard College, Columbia University.

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Éditeur
The Belknap Press
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0674028228
ISBN 13 
9780674028227
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
328
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780674046986: The Word of the Lord Is Upon Me: The Righteous Performance of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0674046986 ISBN 13 :  9780674046986
Editeur : Belknap Press, 2010
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