White Men's Magic

Scripturalization as Slavery

AvVincent L. Wimbush

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

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Beskrivning

Characterizing Olaudah Equiano's eighteenth-century narrative of his life as a type of "scriptural story" that connects the Bible with identity formation, Vincent L. Wimbush's White Men's Magic probes not only how the Bible and its reading played a crucial role in the first colonial contacts between black and white persons in the North Atlantic but also the process and meaning of what he terms "scripturalization." By this term, Wimbush means a social-psychological-political discursive structure or "semiosphere" that creates a reality and organizes a society in terms of relations and communications. Because it is based on the particularities of Equiano's narrative, Wimbush's theoretical work is not only grounded but inductive, and shows that scripturalization is bigger than either the historical or the literary Equiano. Scripturalization was not invented by Equiano, he says, but it is not quite the same after Equiano.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2014-04-17
Mått:152 x 231 x 22 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:312
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780199344390

Utforska kategorier

Slaveri inom Historia och arkeologi
Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Vincent L. Wimbush is Professor of Religion and Director of the Institute for Signifying Scriptures at Claremont Graduate University.

Recensioner i media

White Men's Magic profoundly transforms studies of the encounters between the North Atlantic and Black African worlds. In challenging the canonical reading of scriptures, Wimbush invents a new word. 'Scripturalization' is his inspired term to explicate the normalization of constructed meanings, veiling the social and political forces that control their interpretation. Wimbush's innovative method ties the life of the Bible irrevocably to the wider history of slavery and transatlantic movements. The black slave Equiano's autobiography will never be read in the same way again.

Innehållsförteckning

Contents ; Prologue ; Chapter One: "unbounded influence over the credulity and superstition of the people": ; Magic as Slavery, Slavery as Magic ; Chapter Two: "the white men had some spell or magic": ; A Black Stranger's First Contact with White Men's Magic ; Chapter Three: "every person there read the Bible": ; Scripturalization as Matrix of White Men's Magic ; Chapter Four: "to the Britons first the Gospel is preached": ; Scripturalization in the Nationalization of White Men's Magic ; Chapter Five: "in the Bible, I saw things new": ; Scripturalization and the Mimetics of White Men's Magic ; Chapter Six: "take the book and tell God to make them dead": ; Scripturalization as White Men's Hegemony ; Chapter Seven: "I could read it for myself": ; Scripturalization, Slavery, and Agency ; Epilogue ; Bibliography ; Index

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