Imagining Grace: Liberating Theologies in the Slave Narrative Tradition

by Kimberly Connor

In this subtle and illuminating study, Kimberly Rae Connor surveys examples of contemporary literature, drama, art, and music that extend the literary tradition of African-American slave narratives. Revealing the powerful creative links between this tradition and liberation theology's search for grace, she shows how these artworks profess a liberating theology of racial empathy and reconciliation, even if not in traditionally Christian or sacred language...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 025202530X
• ISBN13: 9780252025303
• Release Date: February 2000
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.2"