The Unchurched Preacher and the Circulated Sermon: Literary Preaching in Toni Morrison’s Beloved

Smalley, Matthew

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“…Pilate interrupts the sermon of the preacher in the eulogy of Hagar's death. A lady interrupting a preacher is an unorthodox reaction and it turns the sermon into a contested site wherein two voices carrying different agendas are in clash (Peterson & Peterson, 2001;Reed, 2007;Smalley, 2018). Also in mainstream black Christianity, the sermon always ends with happy notes no matter the notes or circumstances under which it begins.…”

Section: Baby Suggs' Subversive Sermonmentioning

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Toni Morrison’s transgressive literary preaching and folk songs as postmemory

2021

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This paper intends to study the sermons or ‘‘literary preaching’’ and folk songs in Toni Morrison’s fiction in the light of Marianne Hirsch’s concept of postmemory. Drawing on Hirsch’s postmemory then, this paper articulates that the ‘‘literary preaching’’ and folk songs function within Morrison’s novelistic discourse as postmemory medium that presses against the erasure and the death of a culture and history. The folk songs and ‘‘literary preaching’’ are mediums of transgenerational transmission of trauma and history. Hirsch defines postmemory as the memories that the survivors of trauma bequeathed to their children and grandchildren. Hirsch presents photographs as the instrument through which postmemory is archived and conveyed. She talks about ‘‘photographic archive’’ since photographs can bring back their referents. In comparison, the sermons and folk songs are analyzed as ‘‘oral/aural archive’’, for they have the attribute of triggering memory and postmemory. Also, through her literary preaching, Morrison deconstructs and questions mainstream Christianity by blending it with unorthodox Christian practices. For example, Baby Suggs’ sermon in Beloved gives precedence to the flesh over the spirit, and this sermon is remembered throughout the text as a subdued metaphor.

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Toni Morrison’s transgressive literary preaching and folk songs as postmemory

2021

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Trauma, Cura, Comunidade: As Faces de Cristo em Amada, de Toni Morrison

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2020

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Este artigo tem como objetivo fazer uma análise de Amada, de Toni Morrison, com foco especial nos elementos intertextuais bíblicos acerca de Jesus e seu ministério. Usando como pano de fundo as reflexões da teologia da libertação negra, argumenta que em Amada Morrison investe seus personagens de características cristológicas com o propósito principal de interrogar formas eurocêntricas de se fazer teologia, ou seja, um teologizar insensível aos anseios, necessidades e sofrimentos das comunidades negras afetadas pelo racismo e opressão fruto da supremacia branca. No romance, Morrison privilegia uma reflexão que abraça princípios, símbolos e elementos da fé cristã, mas que os coloca no contexto da espiritualidade e cultura das comunidades afrodescendentes. Assim, surge um teologizar mais contextual, que valoriza formas e expressões locais de se pensar a relação com a Alteridade.

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The Unchurched Preacher and the Circulated Sermon: Literary Preaching in Toni Morrison’s Beloved

Cited by 2 publications

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Toni Morrison’s transgressive literary preaching and folk songs as postmemory

Toni Morrison’s transgressive literary preaching and folk songs as postmemory

Trauma, Cura, Comunidade: As Faces de Cristo em Amada, de Toni Morrison

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