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• Title: African American Literature As Spiritual Witness: The Poetic Example of Margaret Alexander Walker (Critical Essay)
• Author : Christianity and Literature
• Release Date : January 01, 2009
• Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,Religion & Spirituality,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 63 KB

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Birthed during the watery baptism of the Middle Passage between Africa and the New World, African American literature is the product of hybrid cultures, hybrid worlds, and hybrid religions. The experiences and memories of traditional African religions, along with a brutal introduction to Western Christianity, created the cauldron in which African American literature was born. From the poetry of Ann Plato and Phillis Wheatley, to the novels of Toni Morrison and John Edgar Wideman, African American literature has been "haunted" by its religious birth-pangs, which produced both acceptance and contestation of its African and Christian origins. Using the poetry of Margaret Alexander Walker, this brief article simply argues that while there does appear to be a "return to religion" in the larger arena of literary and cultural studies, African American literature and literary criticism have never turned away from their spiritual roots. The revelation and contestation of spiritual truths is not a passing fad in African American literature; rather, the work of theology is at the heart of this canon of texts.

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