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Moses and Multiculturalism

Author : Barbara Johnson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 42,19 MB
Release : 2010-02-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520262549

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Countering impressions of Moses reinforced by Sigmund Freud in his epoch-making Moses and Monotheism, this concise, engaging work begins with the perception that the story of Moses is at once the most nationalist and the most multicultural of all foundation narratives. Weaving together various texts—biblical passages, philosophy, poems, novels, opera, and movies—Barbara Johnson explores how the story of Moses has been appropriated, reimagined, and transmitted across cultures and historical moments. But she finds that already in the Bible, the story of Moses is a multicultural story, the story of someone who functions well in a world to which he, unbeknownst to the casual observer, does not belong. Using the Moses story as a lens through which to view questions at the heart of contemporary literary, philosophical, and ethical debates, Johnson shows how, through a close analysis of this figure's recurrence through time, we might understand something of the paradoxes, if not the impasses of contemporary multiculturalism.

Moses in America

Author : Melanie Jane Wright
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 29,20 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Bible
ISBN : 0195152263

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This book explores the retelling of the life of Moses in three 20th-century American narratives: Moses in Red, by Lincoln Steffens; Moses, Man of the Mountain, by Zora Neale Hurston; and Cecil B. DeMille's film, The Ten Commandments. Wright's analysis reveals that the figure of Moses has strong currency in American culture at many levels.

A Genealogy of Literary Multiculturalism

Author : Christopher Douglas
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 36,22 MB
Release : 2011-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0801457289

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As an anthropology student studying with Franz Boas, Zora Neale Hurston recorded African American folklore in rural central Florida, studied hoodoo in New Orleans and voodoo in Haiti, talked with the last ex-slave to survive the Middle Passage, and collected music from Jamaica. Her ethnographic work would serve as the basis for her novels and other writings in which she shaped a vision of African American Southern rural folk culture articulated through an antiracist concept of culture championed by Boas: culture as plural, relative, and long-lived. Meanwhile, a very different antiracist model of culture learned from Robert Park's sociology allowed Richard Wright to imagine African American culture in terms of severed traditions, marginal consciousness, and generation gaps. In A Genealogy of Literary Multiculturalism, Christopher Douglas uncovers the largely unacknowledged role played by ideas from sociology and anthropology in nourishing the politics and forms of minority writers from diverse backgrounds. Douglas divides the history of multicultural writing in the United States into three periods. The first, which spans the 1920s and 1930s, features minority writers such as Hurston and D'Arcy McNickle, who were indebted to the work of Boas and his attempts to detach culture from race. The second period, from 1940 to the mid-1960s, was a time of assimilation and integration, as seen in the work of authors such as Richard Wright, Jade Snow Wong, John Okada, and Ralph Ellison, who were influenced by currents in sociological thought. The third period focuses on the writers we associate with contemporary literary multiculturalism, including Toni Morrison, N. Scott Momaday, Frank Chin, Ishmael Reed, and Gloria Anzaldúa. Douglas shows that these more recent writers advocated a literary nationalism that was based on a modified Boasian anthropology and that laid the pluralist grounds for our current conception of literary multiculturalism. Ultimately, Douglas's "unified field theory" of multicultural literature brings together divergent African American, Asian American, Mexican American, and Native American literary traditions into one story: of how we moved from thinking about groups as races to thinking about groups as cultures—and then back again.

The Novel and the Globalization of Culture

Author : Michael Valdez Moses
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 18,13 MB
Release : 1995-05-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0195358287

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Bringing together canonical European authors with authors from the Third World, this book analyzes the emergence of the modern global novel, and the way it mirrors the underlying process of cultural globalization. Through detailed readings of Stendhal, Hardy, Conrad, Achebe, and Vargas Llosa, this study reveals how the spread of Western modernity--materially and culturally--has been shadowed by the destruction of traditional societies. These novels focus on the individual tragedies of those who represent pre-modern ways of life; in the process, offering a corrective to Hegel's abstruse philosophy of history. From rural Victorian England to the Malay Archipelago, and from the Igbo heartland in Africa to the backlands of Brazil, a global narrative unfolds, one where the forces of modernization clash with the defenders of traditional society. Moses contributes to the ongoing debate on Alexandre Koj`eve and the "end of history", while, at the same time, moving beyond sterile oppositions--canonical versus non-canonical works, formal literary criticism versus political/historical critique. With its new conceptualization of modernity and globalization, this book will interest the literary scholar, cultural critic, social scientist, and political theorist.

Moses in America

Author :
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 40,33 MB
Release : 2002
Category :
ISBN : 9781280501876

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This title explores the retelling of the life of Moses in three 20th-century American narratives: "Moses in Red", by Lincoln Steffens; "Moses, Man of the Mountain", by Zora Neale Hurston; and Cecil B. DeMille's film, "The Ten Commandments". Wright's analysis reveals that the figure of Moses has strong currency in American culture at many levels: mainstraem, white and black, intellectual and academic, religious and secular. More generally, she seeks throughout to address the question of why these three artists believed their arguments - and Wright insists that they are arguments - were best advanced by the re-presentation of an ancient biblical narrative.

Moses in America

Author : Melanie Jane Wright
Publisher :
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 23,21 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9781602569331

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This title explores the retelling of the life of Moses in three 20th-century American narratives: 'Moses in Red', by Lincoln Steffens; Moses, 'Man of the Mountain', by Zora Neale Hurston ; and Cecil B. DeMille's film, 'The Ten Commandments'.

Sometimes We Do

Author : Omowale Moses
Publisher : Mathtalk
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,13 MB
Release : 2019-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781943431472

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"Johari loves daddy days, when he and his father make scrumptious pancakes, ride trains, play ball and talk about concepts like thick and thin, tall and short, and humongous. Written by Math Talk founder, Omo Moses, this book will spark fun family conversations packed with learning"--Back cover.

Crossing Cultures in Scripture

Author : Marvin J. Newell
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 25,8 MB
Release : 2016-10-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830873333

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Missionary and missions professor Marvin Newell provides a biblical theology of culture and mission, mining the depths of Scripture to tease out missiological insights and crosscultural perspectives. Organized canonically from Genesis to Revelation, this text reveals how the whole of Scripture speaks to contemporary mission realities.

Embracing Race

Author : Michele S. Moses
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 32,48 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807742372

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With clarity, passion, and creativity, Michele Moses offers a new and promising lens for viewing the unsolved issues of race and education. In this book, Moses provides a comprehensive examination of four major race-conscious educational policies: bilingual education, multicultural curricula, affirmative action, and remedial education. She argues, convincingly, that such policies are critical to fostering self-determination and personal autonomy in students who will otherwise be left with a deficient education. Presenting a strong, theoretically grounded case for race-conscious educational policies, this volume offers a new framework for examining the complex interaction between race, education, opportunities, and justice. Some of the important questions addressed in this volume include: -- What must the educational system do to promote social justice for students of color and poor students? -- What is required to help these students to develop self-determination? -- How will race-conscious educational policies help to provide a fair education for all students?

The Religion of Moses

Author : Adolph Moses
Publisher :
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 40,28 MB
Release : 1894
Category : Bible
ISBN :

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