Race, Place, and Radical Remembering in Wendell Berry's Andy Catlett: Early Travels
Wendell Berry has been criticised for promoting a racialised agrarian vision. While this critique may be true of some of his interpreters, Berry's writing delineates a disciplined imagination that is critically self-aware of his own privilege and participation in racist social structures. When...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
[2018]
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Literature and theology
Year: 2018, Volume: 32, Issue: 3, Pages: 340-356 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture CF Christianity and Science FD Contextual theology |
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| Summary: | Wendell Berry has been criticised for promoting a racialised agrarian vision. While this critique may be true of some of his interpreters, Berry's writing delineates a disciplined imagination that is critically self-aware of his own privilege and participation in racist social structures. When read alongside Willie Jennings' theological account of race, place, and the need for radical remembering, the associative recollection and reticence of Berry's narrative in Andy Catlett: Early Travels demonstrates the practices of an imagination included in an ameliorative theological social vision. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/fry010 |