Provincializing the Bible by Norman Jones

Author:Norman Jones
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)
Published: 2018-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

7 See Dwight A. McBride, Impossible Witness: Truth, Abolitionism, and Slave Testimony.

8 As Amy Hungerford explains, most argue “that Morrison is revising or criticizing the aspects of the Bible she invokes—the Pauline notion of love, the erotics of blackness, the status of the prophet, the ground of holy community, the theology of slavery” (99). By contrast, Hungerford, like John McClure, offers a reading of Beloved that not only acknowledges but highlights the strengths of its more traditional, less iconoclastic invocations of the Bible. For her, what Morrison invokes “more than anything else” through her biblical allusions “is the Bible’s status as a sacred book” (99). Other scholars, Hungerford avers, “tend to leave unanalyzed the ‘awe and respect’—the sacredness of the text—to which Morrison points” (166 n. 43).

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