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Black Flesh Matters
Essays on Runagate Interpretation
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2022
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These essays, written over more than thirty years of Vincent L. Wimbush’s career as a scholar, provide a response to the nearly universal, persistent, and sedimented modern-world hyper-signification of Black flesh, always needing to be framed, humiliated, policed, and dirtied. Because Wimbush is a scholar of religion as culture—having to do with social practices and their psycho-politics as regimes of knowledge, discourse, formation, and power relations—his ex-centric transdisciplinary interest in scriptures has been viewed, in some circles, as controversial. Yet it is Wimbush’s linkage of the modern hyper-signification of Black flesh—leading to racialization and racism, especially anti-Black racism—to the scriptural as shorthand for discourse and relations of power that makes this work compelling.
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2022
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978-1-9787-1269-0
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978-1-9787-1270-6
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Lexington, Lanham
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English
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404
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Dedeicaton No access
Epigraph No access
Contents No access
List of Figures No access
Foreword No access
Acknowledgments No access
NOTES No access
Chapter 1: Contemptus Mundi: The Social Power of an AncientRhetorics and Worldview (1992) No access
Chapter 2: Ascetic Behavior andColorful Language: Stories about Ethiopian Moses (1992) No access
Chapter 3: “Not of This World”: Early Christianities as Rhetorical and Social Formation (1996) No access
Chapter 4: “Like a Ship That’s Tossed and Driven” The Ascetics of Social Formation (2001) No access
Chapter 5: Contemptus Mundi: The Dialectics of Modern Formation No access
READING THE WORLD—“DARKLY”:PROBLEMATIZING THE CONJUNCTIONAND THE QUESTION No access
READING DARK PEOPLES READINGTHE WORLD DARKLY No access
DU BOIS AND THE VEIL No access
DU BOIS, SCRIPTURES, TIME ANDSILENCE AS CRITICAL VEIL-ING No access
Chapter 8: “No Modern Joshua”: Nationalization, Scriptures, and Race (2009) No access
Chapter 9: Inter prete rs: E nslav ing/E nslav ed/Ru nagat e (2010) No access
Chapter 10: Performing Scriptures: Text(ure)s of African Diaspora Formation (2020) No access
Chapter 11: The Work We Make Scriptures Do for Us: An Argument for Signifying (on) Scriptures as Intellectual Project (2010) No access
Chapter 12: Scripturalization: A Theory of the Politics of Language (2015) No access
Chapter 13: From Being Framed to Selling Shadows No access
Chapter 14: American Constantine No access
Chapter 15: White Men’s Fetish: The Black Atlantic Reads King James (2015) No access
Chapter 16: The Name the Peckerwoods Gave It: St. Paul’s Spiritual Holy Temple and the Scriptural Formation of the Black Atlantic Written in collaboration with Rosamond C. Rodman No access
Chapter 17: “We Will Make Our Own Future Text”: An Alternate Orientation toInterpretation (2007) No access
Chapter 18: Meditation on Disruption (2018) No access
Chapter 19: Scriptures: Fathoming a Complex Social-Cultural Phenomenon (2004) No access
Chapter 20: EscapeThe Launch of the Independent Institute for Signifying Scriptures (2014) No access
Chapter 21: “I Wish [We] Knew How it Would Feel to be Free”: The Subjunctive Mood (2016) No access
Chapter 22: “If the President Does It . . . It’s Not Illegal. . .”: The Modern Nation/State asthe Scriptural (2017) No access
Chapter 23: “They’re Ruining the Game”: (Mis)Readers of the Nation-State (2018) No access
Chapter 24: Who Counts(?): Scripturalization as Classification (2019) No access
Chapter 25: Scriptures, Race, Nation: Thinking through our Mystifications No access
Chapter 26: Religion as the Scriptural: Or, the Mimeticization of Reality No access
Chapter 27: Scripturalization as Violence No access
Chapter 28: “Backgrounded by Savagery”: Black Flesh as Scripture No access
Afterword: Mr. George Floyd—American Scripture No access Pages 385 - 388
