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A Poetics of Postcolonial Biblical Criticism: God, Human-Nature Relationship, and Negritude - Couverture souple

Niang, Aliou Cissé

 
9781532617294: A Poetics of Postcolonial Biblical Criticism: God, Human-Nature Relationship, and Negritude
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ISBN 10 : 1532617291 ISBN 13 : 9781532617294
Editeur : Cascade Books, 2019

Synopsis

Telling in current biblical postcolonial discourse that draws insights from the works of Aime Cesaire, Frantz Fanon, and postcolonial theorists is the missing contribution of Leopold Sedar Senghor, the architect of Negritude. If mentioned at all, Senghor is often read through conclusions drawn by his critics or dismissed altogether as irrelevant to postcolonialism. Restored to its rightful place, Senghorian Negritude is a postcolonial lens for reading Scripture and other faith traditions with a view to reposition, conscientize, liberate, and rehabilitate the conquered, and enable them to reclaim their faith traditions and practices that once directed a mutual relationship between God, human, and nature--a delicate symbiosis before the French colonial advent in West Africa. A keen eye for cross-cultural analysis and contextualization enriched this volume with an intriguing reading of scripture, Ancient Near Eastern and Greco-Roman texts in conversation with other faith traditions, particularly Senegalese Diola Religion. As a Poetics of Postcolonial Biblical Criticism, Negritude is an optic through which people of faith may look around themselves, critically reread their sacred texts, reassess their vocation, and practice mutuality with God and nature on the heels of chilling climate change. Enshrined in this innovative argument is a call for introspection and challenge for people of faith to assume their vocation--human participatory agency.

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À propos de l'auteur

liou Cisse Niang is Associate Professor of New Testament at Union Theological Seminary in New York. He is the author of Faith and Freedom in Galatia and Senegal: (2009) and co-editor (with Carolyn Osiek) of Text, Image and Christians in the Graeco-Roman World: A Festschrift in Honor of David Lee Balch (2012).

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Éditeur
Cascade Books
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1532617291
ISBN 13 
9781532617294
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
232
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