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The “Blaqueer [Blacker]” Church: Queerness as a Syncretic Religion in Robert Jones, Jr.’s The Prophets
Klein, Sandra 
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Tunca, Daria
Date of defense : 15-Jun-2023/24-Jun-2023 • Permalink : http://hdl.handle.net/2268.2/17312
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| Title : | The “Blaqueer [Blacker]” Church: Queerness as a Syncretic Religion in Robert Jones, Jr.’s The Prophets |
| Author : | Klein, Sandra
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| Date of defense : | 15-Jun-2023/24-Jun-2023 |
| Advisor(s) : | Tunca, Daria
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| Committee's member(s) : | Bada, Valérie
Bomans, Bastien
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| Language : | English |
| Number of pages : | 83 |
| Keywords : | [fr] queer theory [fr] gender theory [fr] Black Church [fr] Black liberation theology [fr] intersectionality [fr] Christianity [fr] African religions [fr] antebellum South [fr] precolonial Africa |
| Discipline(s) : | Arts & humanities > Literature |
| Target public : | Researchers Professionals of domain Student General public |
| Institution(s) : | Université de Liège, Liège, Belgique |
| Degree: | Master en langues et lettres modernes, orientation germaniques, à finalité approfondie |
| Faculty: | Master thesis of the Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres |
Abstract
[en] This work analyses the Western and precolonial African perceptions of queerness in Robert Jones, Jr.’s novel The Prophets. It shows that while Christian and African beliefs inform very different understandings of queerness, these beliefs are reconciliated in a syncretic religion that is centered around the main queer characters, Samuel and Isaiah, and relies on a reinterpretation of the Christian Bible inspired by James Cone’s Black liberation theology. To best address the representation of queerness in the novel, this dissertation also focuses on gender and gender hierarchy.
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