A Future Unwritten
Blackness between the Religious Invocations of Heidi Durrow and Zadie Smith
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4436663 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brian Bantum (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 112 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 657-674 |
| Publication date | 2013-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | South Atlantic Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-2876 • E-ISSN: 1527-8026 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00382876-2345225 |
| OpenAlex | W2331697531 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
Race and religion were two aspects of the Western colonial project. Novelists Heidi Durrow and Zadie Smith reflect two related but distinct articulations of how to understand this relationship from within the black diaspora and in particular the legacies of "mixed-race" children of the diaspora. This essay argues that each literary exploration of race and place demonstrates the inherent complications of two strategies of negotiating racial and religious identity in contemporary society. While Durrow seeks to extricate her character from both race and religion, seeing religion as simply a cultural marker, Smith wraps her main character inextricably to the historicity of race and religion. Through these interlocutors, this essay examines how black religion might imagine its future in relationship to the particularities of its diaspora(s) and confessions of faith
Aesthetics · Art · Character (mathematics) · Colonialism · Diaspora · Double consciousness · Faith · Historicity (philosophy) · Identity (music) · Political science · Politics · Race (biology) · Sociology · Theology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Race, History, and American Society · South African History and Culture
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |