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A Poetics of Postcolonial Biblical Criticism

by Niang Aliou Cisse Niang

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Cascade Books
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 1.4 cm

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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.
A Poetics of Postcolonial Biblical Criticism and Life Under the Baobab Tree: Africana Studies and Religion in a Transitional Age
Life Under the Baobab Tree: Africana Studies and Religion in a Transitional AgeA Poetics of Postcolonial Biblical Criticism

  • Author

    Niang Aliou Cisse Niang

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Cascade Books

  • Published

    December 2019

  • Weight

    350g

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 1.4 cm

  • ISBN

    9781532617294

  • ISBN-10

    1532617291

  • Eden Code

    5172036

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