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EBOOK White Men's Magic:Scripturalization as Slavery

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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199873586
EAN: 5D7FC0D5EB
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Stron: 312
Data wydania: 2012
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the        African, first published in England in 1789, was one of the earliest and remains to        this day one of the best-known English language slave narratives. 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. This scripturalization, achieved by the British to establish a        colonial and racialized society in and through the promotion of literacy and the        Bible as a ''fetishized center-object,'' was also performed by an abject outsider or        stranger like Equiano through his reading of the Bible as well as his own writing        with the goal of imagining and promoting a more inclusive society. It is for this        reason that Wimbush calls Equiano's narrative a ''scriptural story,'' and he argues        that this is why the talking book trope appears repeatedly in writings of        eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century black Atlantic writers. He identifies three        different types of scripturalization: (1) scripturalization as social-cultural        matrix and comparative magic; (2) scripturalization in the service of        nationalization and for the purpose of naturalization; and (3) scripturalization in        negotiation and for resistance. Because it is based on the particularities of        Equiano's narrative, Wimbush's theoretical work is not only grounded but inductive.          Wimbush 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.

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