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Article: Imagining Grace: Liberating Theologies in the Slave Narrative Tradition.(Review)
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- African American Review
- Article date:
- December 22, 2000
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Kimberly Rae Connor. Imagining Grace: Liberating Theologies in the Slave Narrative Tradition. Urbana: U ot Illinois P, 2000. 311 pp. $32.95.
Imagining Grace uses a self-referential approach which combines elements of Marxist and Black Aesthetic liberation theologies while arguing for the inclusion of nonreligious theological perspectives in the consideration of slave narratives. Using Pablo Freire's conception of the interrelated interests in liberation of the oppressed and oppressor (Pedagogy of the Oppressed), Connor argues that the ongoing slave narrative tradition conveys liberation messages for both blacks and whites in the United States. Although slave ...