The sacred act of reading : spirituality, performance, and power in Afro-diasporic literature /
"This book brings together literary texts, historical and contemporary anthropological studies, theology, and critical theory to show how Black authors in the Americas employ spiritual phenomena as theoretical frameworks for sociopolitical power"--
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2020.
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| Series: | New World studies.
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| Summary: | "This book brings together literary texts, historical and contemporary anthropological studies, theology, and critical theory to show how Black authors in the Americas employ spiritual phenomena as theoretical frameworks for sociopolitical power"-- |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 264 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813943442 0813943442 9780813943459 0813943450 |