TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kay,Roy
TI  - The Ethiopian prophecy in Black American letters
T2  - History of African American Religions
SN  - 9780813040516
AV  - BS1450 68th .K39 2011eb
U1  - 223/.20608996073 23
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Gainesville
PB  - University Press of Florida
KW  - Bible
KW  - Psalms, LXVIII, 31
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Old Testament
KW  - Prophecies
KW  - fast
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Religion
KW  - Noirs américains
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Biblical Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Wisdom Literature
KW  - Ethiopia in the Bible
KW  - Ethiopia
KW  - In the Bible
KW  - Éthiopie
KW  - Dans la Bible
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: the inch and ells of Psalm 68:31 -- Early Jewish and Christian figures of Ethiopia -- Managing Blackness: Protestant readings of Psalm 68:31 in colonial America -- Uplifting Ethiopia in America: conversion, self-consciousness, and the figure of Ethiopia -- Missionary emigrationism: Psalm 68:31 and uplifting the Ethiopians in Africa -- Psalm 68:31 and the fight for freedom and equality in antebellum America -- Reading for independence: the figure of Ethiopia and the new Africa -- Rewriting Psalm 68:31: narrative formations of Ethiopia -- Figural exhaustion: parodying the figures of Ethiopia -- Conclusion: reading and refiguring the figures of Ethiopia
N2  - Utilizing examples from Richard Allen, Maria W. Stewart, Kate Drumgoold, Phillis Wheatley, Martin Delany, W.E.B. DuBois, Marcus Garvey, and Ralph Ellison, Kay reveals the wide variety of ways this verse has been interpreted and conceptualized in African American history and letters for more than two hundred years. &
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