Black Flesh Matters

Vincent L. Wimbush is an internationally recognized scholar of religion, with more than thirty years of professional teaching, research, and scholarly organizational program experience. He is founding director of The Institute for Signifying Scriptures, a forum for transdisciplinary research, conversation, and programming.

• Introduction: Cursus Fugae: Frenzied Soundings and Threatening Gestures; or, the Making of an Undisciplined/Black-Fleshed MaroonPart I. Contemptus Mundi; or, Hos Me: Initiation into a Discursive Formation1.Contemptus Mundi: Social Power of an Ancient Rhetorics and Worldview (1992)2.Ascetic Behavior and Color-ful Language: Stories About Ethiopian Moses (1992)3.Not of This World: Early Christianities as Rhetorical and Social Formation (1996)4.Like a Ship that’s Tossed and Driven: The Ascetics of Social Formation (2001)5.Contemptus Mundi: The Dialectics of Modern FormationPart II. “Hitting a Lick With a Crooked Stick”; Or, Reading Darkness, Reading Scriptures: Oblique Critique of the Discursive Formation6.Reading Darkness, Reading Scriptures: African Americans and the Bible—A Disturbing Conjunction and a Defiant Question (2000)7.“Naturally Veiled and Half Articulate”: Scriptures, Modernity, and the Formation of African America (2008)8.“No modern Joshua”: Nationalization, Scr

Black Flesh Matters: Essays in Runagate Interpretation, a pathbreaking collection of essays, advocates a style of biblical criticism inspired by “the world of the Black vernacular and vernacular-sensitive scholarly criticism.” It is a must-read, and not only for anyone interested in emancipatory biblical interpretation. I highly recommend it!