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A Black (Human)ist Homiletic: A Literary Exegetical Response and Hermeneutic Case Study about the Life and Experience of Prince Kaboo as Samuel Morris; the Holy Ghost in Ebony

Hooper, Jay R.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1629311419231057

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2021, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ohio University, Interdisciplinary Arts (Fine Arts).
In this dissertation, A Black (Human)ist Homiletic: A Literary Exegetical Response and Hermeneutic Case Study about the Life and Experience of Prince Kaboo as Samuel Morris; the Angel Ebony, I courageously excavate the literary art of texts written about Samuel Morris through a series of exegetical tools in order to uncover extortion, exploitation, and the cunning sacrilegious exhibition that deprived Morris of his cultural identity behind a veil of Christianization. In this dissertation, I seek to affirm the "human worth and dignity" of Morris without a codependency on theism and provide viable evidence to reveal the mythomaniacal acts of white Christian antics. I argue that a decolonial humanist approach to the literary arts pertaining to the life of Samuel Morris, both material and metaphorical, (Pinn, 2010, p. 11)restores Morris from a TransAtlantic narrative under racial-religious identity that eradicates his human nature and intuitive rationality and reconciles his appropriate Black cultural property (Weisenfeld,2018, p. 5). The depiction of Morris in these synoptic compositions is a theological-aesthetic application interwoven with social and political ingenuity in order to respond to the time in which each text was born.
Andrea Frohne (Committee Chair)
Brian Evans (Advisor)
David Breeden (Committee Member)
Robin Mohummad (Committee Member)
Winsome Chunnu (Committee Member)
174 p.
Aesthetics; African Americans; African Literature; Black Studies; Ethics; Performing Arts; Theology
Exegetical; Hermeneutic; Homiletic; Black Body; Humanist; Theology; Samuel Morris; Prince Kaboo; Taylor University; Fort Wayne College; African; Kru; Critical Interpretation; Christian Myth; Aesthetics; Performance; Speech Act; Nommo; Biblical

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  • Hooper, J. R. (2021). A Black (Human)ist Homiletic: A Literary Exegetical Response and Hermeneutic Case Study about the Life and Experience of Prince Kaboo as Samuel Morris; the Holy Ghost in Ebony [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1629311419231057

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Hooper, Jay. A Black (Human)ist Homiletic: A Literary Exegetical Response and Hermeneutic Case Study about the Life and Experience of Prince Kaboo as Samuel Morris; the Holy Ghost in Ebony. 2021. Ohio University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1629311419231057.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Hooper, Jay. "A Black (Human)ist Homiletic: A Literary Exegetical Response and Hermeneutic Case Study about the Life and Experience of Prince Kaboo as Samuel Morris; the Holy Ghost in Ebony." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1629311419231057

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