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Blackpentecostal Breath
Ashon T. Crawley
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Description for Blackpentecostal Breath
Paperback. Series: Commonalities. Num Pages: 320 pages, 20 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: HPN; HRCC96; HRCM; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 2. Weight in Grams: 464.
WINNER OF THE JUDY TSOU CRITICAL RACE STUDIES AWARD! In this profoundly innovative book, Ashon T. Crawley engages a wide range of critical paradigms from black studies, queer theory, and sound studies to theology, continental philosophy, and performance studies to theorize the ways in which alternative or “otherwise” modes of existence can serve as disruptions against the marginalization of and violence against minoritarian lifeworlds and possibilities for flourishing. Examining the whooping, shouting, noise-making, and speaking in tongues of Black Pentecostalism—a multi-racial, multi-class, multi-national Christian sect with one strand of its modern genesis in 1906 Los Angeles—Blackpentecostal Breath reveals ... Read more
WINNER OF THE JUDY TSOU CRITICAL RACE STUDIES AWARD! In this profoundly innovative book, Ashon T. Crawley engages a wide range of critical paradigms from black studies, queer theory, and sound studies to theology, continental philosophy, and performance studies to theorize the ways in which alternative or “otherwise” modes of existence can serve as disruptions against the marginalization of and violence against minoritarian lifeworlds and possibilities for flourishing. Examining the whooping, shouting, noise-making, and speaking in tongues of Black Pentecostalism—a multi-racial, multi-class, multi-national Christian sect with one strand of its modern genesis in 1906 Los Angeles—Blackpentecostal Breath reveals ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Series
Commonalities
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823274550
SKU
V9780823274550
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About Ashon T. Crawley
Ashon T. Crawley is Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at University of California, Riverside.
Reviews for Blackpentecostal Breath
"Blackpentecostal Breath is a work of utter originality anchored by daring synthesis, acrobatic leaps of imagination, and laced throughout with passages of jolting beauty."
-Ann Pellegrini coauthor of Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance "A one-of-a-kind intervention into performance, religious, black and cultural studies."
-Roderick A. Ferguson Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer ... Read more
-Ann Pellegrini coauthor of Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance "A one-of-a-kind intervention into performance, religious, black and cultural studies."
-Roderick A. Ferguson Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer ... Read more