"I dreamt that the world was on fire": Boston King's Memoirs, Visionary Discourse, and Colonial Salvation

IF 0.3 3区文学 0 LITERATURE, AMERICAN

AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW Pub Date : 2024-02-28 DOI:10.1353/afa.2023.a920496

Joe Lockard

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Memoirs of Boston King, a Black Preacher appeared in serial form in The Methodist Magazine between March and June 1798. King escaped slavery in South Carolina, joined the British army to fight in the Revolutionary War, eventually resettled in Nova Scotia, and emigrated to Sierra Leone. This essay argues that readings of King’s Memoirs solely as a historical document are inadequate. The essay first summarizes King’s biography and contextualizes it within early Methodist history; a second section reads epiphanic visionary moments in King’s narrative; and a third section considers how colonial and white supremacist thought in the early Methodist church employed King’s narrative as a conversionary instrument.

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"我梦见世界着火了"：波士顿国王的回忆录、幻象话语和殖民地的救赎

摘要:《黑人传教士波士顿-金回忆录》于 1798 年 3 月至 6 月期间在《卫理公会杂志》上连载。金在南卡罗来纳州逃离奴隶制，加入英军参加革命战争，最终在新斯科舍省定居，并移居塞拉利昂。本文认为，仅将金的《回忆录》作为历史文献来解读是不够的。文章首先概述了金的传记，并将其纳入早期卫理公会的历史背景中；第二部分解读了金的叙述中令人顿悟的异象时刻；第三部分探讨了早期卫理公会中的殖民主义和白人至上主义思想如何利用金的叙述作为改变信仰的工具。

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AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW LITERATURE, AMERICAN-

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期刊介绍： As the official publication of the Division on Black American Literature and Culture of the Modern Language Association, the quarterly journal African American Review promotes a lively exchange among writers and scholars in the arts, humanities, and social sciences who hold diverse perspectives on African American literature and culture. Between 1967 and 1976, the journal appeared under the title Negro American Literature Forum and for the next fifteen years was titled Black American Literature Forum. In 1992, African American Review changed its name for a third time and expanded its mission to include the study of a broader array of cultural formations.