SPIRITUALS AND THE CHAIN OF MEMORY IN JAMES CONE’S SPIRITUALS AND THE BLUES
SPIRITUALS AND THE CHAIN OF MEMORY IN JAMES CONE’S SPIRITUALS AND THE BLUES
Author(s): Péter Gaál-Szabó Subject(s): Sociology of Religion, Politics of History/Memory, Politics and Identity, American Literature
Published by: Editura Universităţii de Vest din Timişoara / Diacritic Timisoara
Keywords: African American cultural memory; African American religio-cultural identity; chain of memory; spirituals;
Summary/Abstract: James H. Cone gives an account of a black cultural identity in his Spirituals and the Blues (1972) that can be seen as connecting to a body of tradition that reveals Cone’s reinvigorating memory work. The present essay examines how the chain of memory is at work to reconstruct the African American self in a religio-culturally authentic way.
Journal: B.A.S. British and American Studies
- Issue Year: 28/2022
- Issue No: 28
- Page Range: 249-259
- Page Count: 11
- Language: English