عنوان

Keeping the Dream Alive:

شماره

LA125169

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Keeping the Dream Alive:

نام عام مواد

[Article]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

Meridian as Alice Walker's Homage to Martin Luther King and the Beloved Community

نام نخستين پديدآور

Paul Tewkesbury

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

This essay examines the ways in which Alice Walker's 1976 novel Meridian is shaped by Martin Luther King Jr.'s notion of the Beloved Community, a religious and social ideal that epitomized the goals of the 1960s civil rights movement. Previous studies of Meridian focus on connections between the novel and the movement, but they do not explore the connections between the novel's spiritual dimensions and King's religious philosophy. As Walker pays tribute to King and his religious philosophy throughout Meridian, she also fleshes out her own womanist philosophy. Indeed, Walker's womanist philosophy as revealed in Meridian is more congruent with King's Christian theology than one might expect, for the values of redemptive suffering, nonviolence, love, and community are as central to the novel as they are to King's thought. This essay examines the ways in which Alice Walker's 1976 novel Meridian is shaped by Martin Luther King Jr.'s notion of the Beloved Community, a religious and social ideal that epitomized the goals of the 1960s civil rights movement. Previous studies of Meridian focus on connections between the novel and the movement, but they do not explore the connections between the novel's spiritual dimensions and King's religious philosophy. As Walker pays tribute to King and his religious philosophy throughout Meridian, she also fleshes out her own womanist philosophy. Indeed, Walker's womanist philosophy as revealed in Meridian is more congruent with King's Christian theology than one might expect, for the values of redemptive suffering, nonviolence, love, and community are as central to the novel as they are to King's thought.

تاريخ نشر

2011

توصيف ظاهري

603-627

عنوان

Religion and the Arts

شماره جلد

15/5

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1568-5292

اصطلاح موضوعی

African American culture in the South

اصطلاح موضوعی

Alice Walker

اصطلاح موضوعی

Beloved Community

اصطلاح موضوعی

civil rights movement

اصطلاح موضوعی

Martin Luther King Jr.

اصطلاح موضوعی

Meridian

اصطلاح موضوعی

womanist

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Paul Tewkesbury

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/156852911X596255

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y