(re)Citing Diaspora
Poetics, Difference, and the Scripturalization, Contextualizing, and Signifying of History
(re)Citing Diaspora
Poetics, Difference, and the Scripturalization, Contextualizing, and Signifying of History
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Description
What happens when disciplines that study diaspora are inclined to perceive knowledge derived from Black life as anachronism?
How scholars write history and interpret early Christian texts is not neutral; they rehearse cartographies drawn by Enlightenment thinkers who treated linearity as the shape of human progress and the nation-state as its natural container. These inherited cartographies function as unquestioned scriptures that shape how interpreters reconstruct the past and read texts within those historical reconstructions. In this book, New Testament scholar A. Francis Carter Jr. centers diaspora as a prism to explore and intervene in hermeneutical theory. Through contextual readings, Carter exposes a disciplinary predisposition towards anti-Blackness incipient to Diaspora Studies. He then reorients the discourse and maps diaspora's etymological origins and biblical uses through a Black Atlantic cartographic framework - replacing sameness with differentness, linearity with polyvocality, and the erasure of Black life with its recognition as a site from which scripture, history, and diaspora become legible.
Table of Contents
Story-Telling as Interlude: The Chevalier de Saint-Georges
Part I: Reading Orientations: Enlightened Pre-Texts and Modern Landscapes
1: I Don't See Color (Ever): Hegelian Color-Blindness as Pathology and Cartography
2: Pathogens: Root-Language and the Line as a Figure of Structure
3: A Scientific Perspective: Imagination, Rhizome, and Grubbing the Myth of Science as Positivist
Story-Telling as Interlude: Joseph, Anne's Son
Part II: Pathological Spaces: Diaspora, (Un)Disciplined
4: A Landscape of Diaspora Studies: An Economy of Thought
5: Studying Diaspora before an (un)Disciplined Diaspora Studies: Economical Stories
6: Familiar Terrains: the Roots of Definitional Diaspora
7: The Practical Grammars of Diaspora Studies: Definitions, Approaches, and Uses
Story-Telling as Interlude: James William Roman
Part III: Reading Contexts for Diaspora
8: Recitations: A Practice of Reading in Black American Discursive Traditions
9: A Generative Story of Diaspora: Contextual Reading as Rhizomic Mapping
10: Heuristic Insights for Diaspora Studies: A Roman View with Preliminary Framing Chapter 11 (re)Sighting Diaspora: (re)Viewing the Archive
Product details
| Published | 12 Nov 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 256 |
| ISBN | 9798216354437 |
| Imprint | T&T Clark |
| Illustrations | 10 tables |
| Series | Scripturalization: Discourse, Formation, Power |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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