Black Flesh Matters: Essays on Runagate Interpretation

Cover\nHalf Title\nTitle Page\nCopyright Page\nDedeicaton\nEpigraph\nContents\nList of Figures\nForeword\nAcknowledgments\nIntroduction: Cursus Fugae—Frenzied Soundings and Threatening Gestures; or, the Making of an Undisciplined/Black-Fleshed Maroon\n	NOTES\nPart I: CONTEMPTUS MUNDI; OR, HŌS MĒ: INITIATION INTO A DISCURSIVEFORMATION\n	Chapter 1: Contemptus Mundi: The Social Power of an AncientRhetorics and Worldview (1992)\n	Chapter 2: Ascetic Behavior andColorful Language: Stories about Ethiopian Moses (1992)\n	Chapter 3: “Not of This World”: Early Christianities as Rhetorical and Social Formation (1996)\n	Chapter 4: “Like a Ship That’s Tossed and Driven” The Ascetics of Social Formation (2001)\n	Chapter 5: Contemptus Mundi: The Dialectics of Modern Formation\nPart II: “HITTING A LICK WITH A CROOKED STICK”; OR, READING DARKNESS, READING SCRIPTURES: OBLIQUE CRITIQUE OF THE DISCURSIVE FORMATION\n	Chapter 6: Reading Darkness, Reading Scriptures: African Americans and the Bible—A Disturbing Conjunction and a Defiant Question (2000)\n		READING THE WORLD—“DARKLY”:PROBLEMATIZING THE CONJUNCTIONAND THE QUESTION\n		READING DARK PEOPLES READINGTHE WORLD DARKLY\n	Chapter 7: “Naturally Veiled and Half Articulate”: Scriptures, Modernity, and the Formation of African America (2008)\n		DU BOIS AND THE VEIL\n		DU BOIS, SCRIPTURES, TIME ANDSILENCE AS CRITICAL VEIL-ING\n	Chapter 8: “No Modern Joshua”: Nationalization, Scriptures, and Race (2009)\n	Chapter 9: Inter prete rs: E nslav ing/E nslav ed/Ru nagat e (2010)\n	Chapter 10: Performing Scriptures: Text(ure)s of African Diaspora Formation (2020)\nPart III: SIGNIFYING (ON) SCRIPTURES; OR, READING TEXTURES, GESTURES, POWER: EFFORTS AT RE-ORIENTATION AND RE-FORMATION WITHIN THE VEIL OF FORMATION\n	Chapter 11: The Work We Make Scriptures Do for Us: An Argument for Signifying (on) Scriptures as Intellectual Project (2010)\n	Chapter 12: Scripturalization: A Theory of the Politics of Language (2015)\n	Chapter 13: From Being Framed to Selling Shadows\n	Chapter 14: American Constantine\n	Chapter 15: White Men’s Fetish: The Black Atlantic Reads King James (2015)\n	Chapter 16: The Name the Peckerwoods Gave It: St. Paul’s Spiritual Holy Temple and the Scriptural Formation of the Black Atlantic Written in collaboration with Rosamond C. Rodman\n	Chapter 17: “We Will Make Our Own Future Text”: An Alternate Orientation toInterpretation (2007)\n	Chapter 18: Meditation on Disruption (2018)\nPart IV: “I’M BUILDIN’ ME A HOME,” OR, “[I] HAD TO RUN”: EXPANSIVE AND SAFE SPACE FOR “COMPOSING” THE HUMAN\n	Chapter 19: Scriptures: Fathoming a Complex Social-Cultural Phenomenon (2004)\n	Chapter 20: EscapeThe Launch of the Independent Institute for Signifying Scriptures (2014)\n	Chapter 21: “I Wish [We] Knew How it Would Feel to be Free”: The Subjunctive Mood (2016)\n	Chapter 22: “If the President Does It . . . It’s Not Illegal. . .”: The Modern Nation/State asthe Scriptural (2017)\n	Chapter 23: “They’re Ruining the Game”: (Mis)Readers of the Nation-State (2018)\n	Chapter 24: Who Counts(?): Scripturalization as Classification (2019)\n	Chapter 25: Scriptures, Race, Nation: Thinking through our Mystifications\n	Chapter 26: Religion as the Scriptural: Or, the Mimeticization of Reality\n	Chapter 27: Scripturalization as Violence\n	Chapter 28: “Backgrounded by Savagery”: Black Flesh as Scripture\nAfterword: Mr. George Floyd—American Scripture\nBibliography\nIndex\nAbout the Author