Katie's Canon : Womanism and the Soul of the Black Community

by Cannon, Katie Geneva

• ISBN13: 9780826410344
• ISBN10: 0826410340
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-04-03
• Publisher: Continuum

Summary

This canon is African American women's literary tradition: a tradition which joins the "real-lived" texture of African American life and the oral-aural cultural values passed on by one generation to the next. "This is vintage Katie Cannon--challenging, prophetic, self-critical, and womanist to the bone".--Cornel West.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 9
Preface	p. 17
Introduction	p. 23
Surviving the Blight	p. 27
Slave Ideology and Biblical Interpretation	p. 38
The Emergence of Black Feminist Consciousness	p. 47
Moral Wisdom in the Black Women's Literary Tradition	p. 57
Womanist Perspectival Discourse and Canon Formation	p. 69
Resources for a Constructive Ethic: The Life and Work of Zora Neale Hurston	p. 77
Unctuousness as Virtue - According to the Life of Zora Neale Hurston	p. 91
"The Wounds of Jesus": Justification of Goodness in the Face of Manifold Evil	p. 101
Womanist Interpretation and Preaching in the Black Church	p. 113
Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: The Womanist Dilemma in the Development of a Black Liberation Ethic	p. 122
Appropriation and Reciprocity in the Doing of Womanist Ethics	p. 129
Metalogues and Dialogues: Teaching the Womanist Idea	p. 136
Racism and Economics: The Perspective of Oliver C. Cox	p. 144
Appendix: Exposing My Home Point of View	p. 162
Notes	p. 171
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