Prophetic Peril: The Rhetoric of Nineteenth-Century African American Prophetic-Call Narratives

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Thomas M. Fuerst

Prophetic Peril

The Rhetoric of Nineteenth-Century African American Prophetic-Call Narratives

Thomas M. Fuerst

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University Press of Mississippi
17 February 2025

Public speaking guides; History of the Americas; Ethnic studies

Series: Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series

Prophecy reimagines the world. It critiques what is and encourages its audience to imagine what could be. All prophecy, therefore, begins with a person willing to reimagine their own situation. In the biblical and African American traditions, this person receives a ""call"" to prophetic ministry that upends their reality and compels them to change the way things are. Prophetic Peril: The Rhetoric of Nineteenth-Century African American Prophetic-Call Narratives invites readers into the imaginative, subversive, and ethically complicated stories of four nineteenth-century Black figures who received the call to challenge the what is and live into the what could be in the midst of a hard-hearted world.

Focusing on the prophetic-call narratives of Maria Stewart, Nat Turner, Julia Foote, and Richard Allen, author Thomas M. Fuerst offers insight into the unique contributions this tradition makes to American oratory, storytelling, history, ethics, theology, and protest. As Fuerst demonstrates, Turner’s call narrative subverts white, political interests and expands politics to include the resistance rhetoric and witness of those on the margins. Allen’s apologetic narration combines deeply thoughtful Protestant exegesis with a liberation theology shaped by the experience of enslavement, anchoring his rhetorical power in the experience of Black people in the nineteenth century. The call narratives of Stewart and Foote circumvent patriarchy and resist patriarchal interpretations of the Bible through biblical, embodied, dramatic, visionary appeals that sidestep persuasion and demand either acceptance or rejection. Taken together, these case studies reveal how antebellum Black preachers used religious storytelling to resist white, patriarchal oppression and assert their own voices, offering unique insight to our understanding of prophecy and resistance.

By: Thomas M. Fuerst
Imprint: University Press of Mississippi
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781496855435
ISBN 10: 1496855434
Series: Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 17 February 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Thomas M. Fuerst has a PhD in rhetoric and communications from the University of Memphis and an MA in religious studies from the University of Missouri. He specializes in religious rhetoric, with an emphasis in biblical texts, interpretation, and prophetic rhetoric.

Reviews for Prophetic Peril: The Rhetoric of Nineteenth-Century African American Prophetic-Call Narratives

Prophetic Peril: The Rhetoric of Nineteenth-Century African American Prophetic-Call Narratives addresses important theoretical, historical, and political conversations that are now underway about race.--Barry Brummett, Charles Sapp Centennial Professor Emeritus in Communication at the University of Texas at Austin