(Re)citing Diaspora as Scriptural Cartographies

Sightings of the Black Atlantic and Story-Telling Difference Before Reading

AvA. Francis Carter, Jr.

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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What happens when disciplines that study diaspora are inclined to perceive knowledge derived from Black life as anachronism? In this book, A. Francis Carter, Jr. centers diaspora as a prism to explore and intervene in hermeneutical theory. How scholars write history and interpret early Christian texts is not neutral; they rehearse cartographies drawn by Enlightenment thinkers who treated linearity as the shape of human progress and the nation-state as its natural container. These inherited cartographies function as unquestioned scriptures that shape how interpreters reconstruct the past and read texts within those historical reconstructions. Through contextual readings, Carter exposes a disciplinary predisposition towards anti-Blackness incipient to Diaspora Studies. He then reorients the discourse and maps diaspora’s etymological origins and biblical uses through a Black Atlantic cartographic framework — replacing sameness with differentness, linearity with polyvocality, and the erasure of Black life with its recognition as a site from which scripture, history, and diaspora become legible.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-12-10
Mått:152 x 229 x 14 mm
Vikt:349 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Scripturalization: Discourse, Formation, Power
Antal sidor:320
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781978716148

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A. Francis Carter, Jr. is Assistant Professor of New Testament and early Christian literature and Director of Black Church Traditions and African American Faith-Life at Phillips Theological Seminary, USA.

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This is a substantial and subtle study of the discourse of diaspora from a Black Atlantic perspective that not only resists a rigid and static framework of the nation-state, but also recommends a reorientation of biblical studies in terms of its assumptions and conventions. Readers who are willing to tackle this thick tome will be rewarded with many thought-provoking ideas.

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Introduction: Diaspora in-SightStory-Telling as Interlude: Reclamations (The Chevalier de Saint-Georges)Part I: Reading Orientations: Enlightened Pre-Texts and Modern Landscapes1: Hegelian Color-Blindness as Pathology and Cartography: I Don’t See Color (Ever)2: Pathogens: Root-Language and the Line as a Figure of Structure3: A Scientific Perspective: Imagination, Rhizome, and (de)Rooting the ObjectiveStory-Telling as Interlude: Reclamations (Joseph, Anne’s Son)Part II: Pathological Spaces: Diaspora Approaches towards Discipline4: A Landscape of Diaspora Studies: An Economy of Thought5: Studying Diaspora before an (un)Disciplined Diaspora Studies: Economic(al) Stories6: Diaspora Studies and Story-Telling Roots, Ideally Not African7: The Practical Grammars of Diaspora Studies: Definitions, Approaches, and UsesStory-Telling as Interlude: Reclamations (James William Roman)Part II: Diaspora (re)Sighted: (re)Citations of Black Atlantic Story-Telling8: Recitations: A Practice of Reading in Black American Discursive Traditions9: A Generative Story of Diaspora: Contextual Reading as Rhizomic Mapping10: Heuristic Insights for Diaspora Studies: A Roman View with Preliminary Framing11: (re)Sighting Diaspora: (re)Viewing the ArchiveBibliography