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Author:

Cohen, J. Laurence, author.

Title:

Excavating Exodus : biblical typology and racial solidarity in African American literature / by J. Laurence Cohen.

Publisher:

Clemson University Press,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

viii, 217 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Moses--(Biblical leader)--In literature.
Moses--(Biblical leader)
1800-1999
American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Typology (Theology) in literature.
Exodus, The, in literature.
Exodus, The--Typology.
African Americans--Race identity.
African Americans--Intellectual life--19th century.
African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.
American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
American literature--History and criticism.--Religious aspects--History and criticism.
African Americans--Intellectual life.
African Americans--Race identity.
American literature.
American literature--African American authors.
Exodus, The, in literature.
Exodus, The--Typology.
Literature.
Typology (Theology) in literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-206) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Moses in African American religious culture -- Mosaic subjectivity in David Walker and Frances Harper -- Typological plasticity in Martin Delany, Herman Melville, and Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Moses vs. the masses : Alain Locke, Aesthetic Uplift, and Zora Neale Hurston -- The end of Exodus? : the dissolution of Mosaic leadership in Ralph Ellison and William Melvin Kelley -- Ralph Ellison and the dangers of the Moses complex -- The end of Exodus? : the dissolution of Mosaic leadership in William Melvin Kelley -- Conclusion: Moses eternal.

Summary:

"Excavating Exodus examines adaptations of Moses' story in novels, newspapers, and speeches from the antebellum period to the Civil Rights era. By asking how Moses became a touchstone for notions of race loyalty, Excavating Exodus traces how Black intellectuals reinvented the Mosaic model of charismatic male leadership"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

African American literature series

ISBN:

1949979911
9781949979916

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1198218667

LCCN:

2020049643

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)