The Ethiopian prophecy in Black American letters
By: Roy Kay
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780813037325
Subjects: Bible; Criticism, interpretation; Prophecies; Religion; Ethiopia in the Bible; African Americans
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the inch and ells of Psalm 68:31; title: Early Jewish and Christian figures of Ethiopia; title: Managing Blackness: Protestant readings of Psalm 68:31 in colonial America; title: Uplifting Ethiopia in America: conversion, self-consciousness, and the figure of Ethiopia; title: Missionary emigrationism: Psalm 68:31 and uplifting the Ethiopians in Africa; title: Psalm 68:31 and the fight for freedom and equality in antebellum America; title: Reading for independence: the figure of Ethiopia and the new Africa; title: Rewriting Psalm 68:31: narrative formations of Ethiopia; title: Figural exhaustion: parodying the figures of Ethiopia; title: Conclusion: reading and refiguring the figures of Ethiopia.