Description

• Title:
  The Story of the Exodus and the Images of the Promised Land and Heaven in the Poetry of African American Spirituals
• Creator:
  Ziółek-Sowińska, Małgorzata
• Contributor:
  Płuciennik, Jarosław;
  Uniwersyte Warszawski, Ośrodek Studiów Amerykańskich
• Description:
  Since the beginning of slavery blacks discovered in the Bible stories which provided not only narratives and language to delineate the difficulty of being a slave, but also hope for a better future in the afterlife. The Exodus was perceived as the Bible’s main argument that God denounced slavery and would come in a catastrophic event to judge those who mistreated blacks. This article is devoted to the exploration of the biblical figure of Exodus as a recurring trope in selected lyrics of slave spirituals and spirituals recorded by bluesmen. Scholars seem to agree that the Exodus is the migration narrative, but in this article I seek to demonstrate that it may also represent the theme of going on a spiritual journey to the other side in the hereafter or the end of time city the New Jerusalem.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Date:
  2022.12.20;
  2017
• Type:
  Article
• Language:
  English
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe
• Relation:
  Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich;4;
  60
• Subject:
  Exodus;
  slaves;
  spirituals;
  the Promised Land;
  the New Jerusalem
• Identifier:
  0084-4446;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/44795 ;
  2451-0335;
  10.26485/ZRL/2017/60.4/3
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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  seek permission
• Type:
  image