{"product_id":"imagining-grace","title":"Imagining Grace","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eIn this subtle and illuminating study, Kimberly Rae Connor surveys examples of contemporary literature, drama, art, and music that extend the literary tradition of African-American slave narratives. Revealing the powerful creative links between this tradition and liberation theology's search for grace, she shows how these artworks profess a liberating theology of racial empathy and reconciliation, even if not in traditionally Christian or sacred language.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e From Frederick Douglass's autobiographical writings through Richard Wright's imaginative reconstruction of slavery to Ernest Gaines's \u003ci\u003eAutobiography of Miss Jane Pittman\u003c\/i\u003e and the candescent novels of Toni Morrison, slave narratives exhort the reader to step into the experience of the dispossessed. Connor underscores the broad influence of the slave narrative by considering nonliterary as well as literary works, including Glenn Ligon's introspective art, Anna Deavere Smith's one-woman performance pieces, and Charlie Haden's politically engaged Liberation Music Orchestra. Through these works, readers, listeners, and viewers imagine grace on two levels: as the liberation of the enslaved from oppression and as their own liberation from prejudice and \"willed innocence.\"\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Calling to task a complacent white society that turns a blind eye to deep-seated and continuing racial inequalities, \u003ci\u003eImagining Grace\u003c\/i\u003e shows how these creative endeavors embody the search for grace, seeking to expose racism in all its guises and lay claim to political, intellectual, and spiritual freedom.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Kimberly Rae Connor","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53616060694908,"sku":"9780252025303","price":36.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/missing-cover_bccff2de-d4e7-464b-8beb-10a72affc734.jpg?v=1746711509","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/imagining-grace","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}