02976nam 2200613Ia 450 991045461210332120200520144314.00-8166-6618-0(CKB)1000000000723034(EBL)433206(OCoLC)318216007(SSID)ssj0000102348(PQKBManifestationID)11133145(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000102348(PQKBWorkID)10049863(PQKB)11128268(MiAaPQ)EBC433206(MdBmJHUP)muse38848(Au-PeEL)EBL433206(CaPaEBR)ebr10277721(CaONFJC)MIL523077(EXLCZ)99100000000072303420080417d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAmerican prophecy[electronic resource] race and redemption in American political culture /George ShulmanMinneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc20081 online resource (340 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-3075-5 0-8166-3074-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-292) and index.Introducing Jeremiah's legacy : placing prophecy in American politics and political theory --Thoreau, the reluctant prophet : moral witness and poetic vision in politics --Interlude : from Henry Thoreau to Martin Luther King Jr. and James Baldwin : race and prophecy --Martin Luther King Jr.'s theistic prophecy : love, sacrifice, and democratic politics --James Baldwin and the racial state of exception : secularizing prophecy? --Toni Morrison and prophecy : "this is not a story to pass on" --Conclusion : prophecy as vernacular political theology.Prophecy is the fundamental idiom of American politics-a biblical rhetoric about redeeming the crimes, suffering, and promise of a special people. Yet American prophecy and its great practitioners-from Frederick Douglass and Henry Thoreau to Martin Luther King, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison-are rarely addressed, let alone analyzed, by political theorists. This paradox is at the heart of American Prophecy, a work in which George Shulman unpacks and critiques the political meaning of American prophetic rhetoric. In the face of religious fundamentalisms that associate prophecy and redemption wPolitical cultureUnited StatesProphecy in literatureProphecyUnited StatesRace relationsElectronic books.Political cultureProphecy in literature.Prophecy.306.2089/00973Shulman George M936701MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454612103321American prophecy2109815UNINA