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White Men's Magic

Scripturalization as Slavery [Paperback]

by Vincent L. Wimbush

    • Author

      Vincent L. Wimbush

    • Book Format

      Paperback

    • Publisher

      Oxford University Press

    • Published

      April 2014

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      Characterizing Olaudah Equiano's eighteenth-century narrative of his life as a type of "scriptural story" that connects the Bible with identity formation, Vincent L. Wimbush's White Men's Magic probes not only how the Bible and its reading played a crucial role in the first colonial contacts between black and white persons in the North Atlantic but also the process and meaning of what he terms "scripturalization." By this term, Wimbush means a social-psychological-political discursive structure or "semiosphere" that creates a reality and organizes a society in terms of relations and communications. Because it is based on the particularities of Equiano's narrative, Wimbush's theoretical work is not only grounded but inductive, and shows that scripturalization is bigger than either the historical or the literary Equiano. Scripturalization was not invented by Equiano, he says, but it is not quite the same after Equiano.

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      • Author

        Vincent L. Wimbush

      • Book Format

        Paperback

      • Publisher

        Oxford University Press

      • Published

        April 2014

      • Weight

        454g

      • Page Count

        312

      • Dimensions

        156 x 234 x 18 mm

      • ISBN

        9780199344390

      • ISBN-10

        0199344396

      • Eden Code

        4532513

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      • Author/Creator: Vincent L. Wimbush

      • ISBN: 9780199344390

      • Publisher: Oxford University Press

      • Release Date: April 2014

      • Weight: 454g

      • Dimensions: 156 x 234 x 18 mm

      • Eden Code: 4532513


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