Richard Wright’s Anagrammatical Allegory of Liturgical Reading, or Inhabiting the Black Messianic in “The Man Who Lived Underground”
This essay reads Richard Wright’s speculative novella, “The Man Who Lived Underground” (1940/1996), as an anagrammatical allegory of liturgical reading. By anagrammatical, I invoke Christina Sharpe’s understanding of how Blackness singularly “exists as an index of violability and also potentiality”...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
2021
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Political theology
Year: 2021, Volume: 22, Issue: 4, Pages: 279-295 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Wright, Richard 1908-1960, The man who lived underground
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/ Liturgy
/ Blacks
/ Messiah (Motif)
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| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture KBQ North America NBK Soteriology NCC Social ethics RC Liturgy |
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Afropessimism
B Apocalyptic B Blackness B Reading B Messianic B Richard Wright B anagrammatical B Liturgy B Agamben B Allegory B Paul B Desecration |
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