Black messiahs and Uncle Toms : social and literary manipulations of a religious myth / Wilson Jeremiah Moses.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moses, Wilson Jeremiah, 1942-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American messianism.

African Americans--Race identity.

African Americans.

Black nationalism--United States.

Black nationalism.

United States.

African Americans--Religion.

Physical Description:

xiii, 282 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

Revised edition.

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [1993]

Summary:

'Moving chronologically over 150 years of Afro-American history, Moses discusses the religio-political positions of diverse historic figures and the messianic themes of several novels. It's obvious that he has read exhaustively and reflected seriously. Fresh insights abound. His assertion, for example, that David Walker's Appeal is more a jeremiad than a protonationalist tract is a convincing rereading. He sardonically demonstrates that the 'Uncle Tom' ideal, correctly understood, has exerted a lasting appeal not only upon integrationists but upon separatists as well....An impressive study of an important myth in Afro-American and American culture.' -Albert J. Raboteau, The Journal of Southern History

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-274) and index.

ISBN:

0271009330

OCLC:

27641936