Full Description
This book 'hunts and gathers' across different historical epochs and situations, juxtaposing biblical materials and hip-hop, Christian colonialism and vodou, personal experience and racial politics, poetics and high theory, in order to challenge the current crisis of sustainability from the perspective indigenous communities and deep ancestry.
Contents
1. From Sycamore Trees to Human Destiny: Reading the Wild at the Crossroads of Globalization and Apocalypse.- 2. Cain's Offering and Abel's Cry: Reading Sabbath-Jubilee at the Crossroads of Farming and Foraging.- 3. Wild Weeds and Imperial Trees: Reading a Messianic Parable at the Crossroads of Settlement and the Wild.- 4. Sinai Bush and Jordanian Dove Meet Haitian Snake and Amazonian Vine: Reading Christology at the Crossroads of Empire and Ecology.- 5. Christian Supremacy and Indigenous Savvy: Reading Race at the Crossroads of Europe and the Americas.- 6. Underneath Guadalupe; Inside Ezili: Reading Possession at the Crossroads of Performance and Terror.- 7. Praying with the Corn/Playing on the Horn: Reading Jazz at the Crossroads of the Country and the City.- 8. DJ Qbert as Cyber-Maniac Shaman: Reading Dee-Jaying at the Crossroads of Tradition and Information.- 9. Grammar of Spirit Inside De-Industrial Ferment: Reading Hip-Hop Beats at the Crossroads of Blight and Order.- 10. Thinking from the Diaspora Back Toward the Homeland: Reading Humanity at the Crossroads of Alliance and Extinction.
