American prophecy
Subtitle: race and redemption in American political culture
By: George Shulman.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9780816630745; 9780816630752
Subjects: Bible. -- O.T. -- Prophecies; Political culture -- United States; Prophecy; Prophecy in literature; United States -- Race relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introducing Jeremiah's legacy : placing prophecy in American politics and political theory; title: Thoreau, the reluctant prophet : moral witness and poetic vision in politics; title: Interlude : from Henry Thoreau to Martin Luther King Jr. and James Baldwin : race and prophecy; title: Martin Luther King Jr.'s theistic prophecy : love, sacrifice, and democratic politics; title: James Baldwin and the racial state of exception : secularizing prophecy?; title: Toni Morrison and prophecy : "this is not a story to pass on"; title: Conclusion : prophecy as vernacular political theology.