Carolyn M Jones
Biographic Data
| ID | 3612919 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carolyn M Jones |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carolyn M |
| FAMILY NAME | Jones |
| SIGNATURE | JONES C M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Georgia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Teaching African American religions
The variety and complexity of its traditions make African American religion a difficult topic to teach at undergraduate level. The essays in this volume offer practical, innovative ways to teach this subject in a variety of settings.
Space/Place and Home
The Blue Devils of Nada
Traces and Cracks
Conversations with Toni Morrison
Without apology Nobel Prize author Toni Morrison describes herself as an African-American woman writer. These collected interviews reveal her to be much more. She has shared space in her creative life for her career in publishing, in teaching, and in being a single parent. Writing, however, is one thing she refuses to live without. These interviews beginning in 1974 reveal an artist whose creativity is intimately linked with her African-American …
Sula and Beloved
In The Mark of Cain, Ruth Mellinkoff rejects single modern image of Cain she examines, Hesse's Demien, as an intentionally distorted treatment of myth. In Hesse's novel, she claims, interpreter has designed his interpretation to serve his own purpose--a self-conscious twisting to achieve personal ends. Clarification or elaboration of biblical texts is not primary goal; rather, biblical elements are used to enhance interpreter's particular point o…
Erotic Faith
From Colonialism to Community
JONES: In an interview with Bill Moyers, Maya Angelou said two things about homeabout Stamps, Arkansas-that I thought were provocative: on the one hand, she said that it had to remain mythic for her, that she had to have some distance from it, that it had to remain an unreality to become a source of her art; then, on the other hand, she said that whenever one's back is up against the wall, what comes out is home. You dedicated your book, Signific…
Space/Place and Home
Conversations with Toni Morrison
Without apology Nobel Prize author Toni Morrison describes herself as an African-American woman writer. These collected interviews reveal her to be much more. She has shared space in her creative life for her career in publishing, in teaching, and in being a single parent. Writing, however, is one thing she refuses to live without. These interviews beginning in 1974 reveal an artist whose creativity is intimately linked with her African-American …
From Colonialism to Community
JONES: In an interview with Bill Moyers, Maya Angelou said two things about homeabout Stamps, Arkansas-that I thought were provocative: on the one hand, she said that it had to remain mythic for her, that she had to have some distance from it, that it had to remain an unreality to become a source of her art; then, on the other hand, she said that whenever one's back is up against the wall, what comes out is home. You dedicated your book, Signific…
Erotic Faith
Sula and Beloved
In The Mark of Cain, Ruth Mellinkoff rejects single modern image of Cain she examines, Hesse's Demien, as an intentionally distorted treatment of myth. In Hesse's novel, she claims, interpreter has designed his interpretation to serve his own purpose--a self-conscious twisting to achieve personal ends. Clarification or elaboration of biblical texts is not primary goal; rather, biblical elements are used to enhance interpreter's particular point o…
Traces and Cracks
Conversations with Toni Morrison
Without apology Nobel Prize author Toni Morrison describes herself as an African-American woman writer. These collected interviews reveal her to be much more. She has shared space in her creative life for her career in publishing, in teaching, and in being a single parent. Writing, however, is one thing she refuses to live without. These interviews beginning in 1974 reveal an artist whose creativity is intimately linked with her African-American …
The Blue Devils of Nada
Space/Place and Home
Teaching African American religions
The variety and complexity of its traditions make African American religion a difficult topic to teach at undergraduate level. The essays in this volume offer practical, innovative ways to teach this subject in a variety of settings.
Philosophy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · History (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)