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Telling in current biblical postcolonial discourse that draws insights from the works of Aime Cesaire, Frantz Fanon, and postcolonial theorists is the missing contribution of Leopold Sedar Senghor, the architect of Negritude. If mentioned at all, Senghor is often read through conclusions drawn by his critics or dismissed altogether as irrelevant to postcolonialism. Restored to its rightful place, Senghorian Negritude is a postcolonial lens for reading Scripture and other faith traditions with a view to reposition, conscientize, liberate, and rehabilitate the conquered, and enable them to reclaim their faith traditions and practices that once directed a mutual relationship between God, human, and nature--a delicate symbiosis before the French colonial advent in West Africa. A keen eye for cross-cultural analysis and contextualization enriched this volume with an intriguing reading of scripture, Ancient Near Eastern and Greco-Roman texts in conversation with other faith traditions, particularly Senegalese Diola Religion. As a Poetics of Postcolonial Biblical Criticism, Negritude is an optic through which people of faith may look around themselves, critically reread their sacred texts, reassess their vocation, and practice mutuality with God and nature on the heels of chilling climate change. Enshrined in this innovative argument is a call for introspection and challenge for people of faith to assume their vocation--human participatory agency.
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Aliou Cisse Niang is associate professor of biblical interpretation--New Testament at Union Theological Seminary in New York. He is the author of Faith and Freedom in Galatia and Senegal (2009) and A Poetics of Postcolonial Biblical Criticism (Cascade, 2019).
Andrew M. Mbuvi is visiting NEH Chair in Humanities and associate professor in the religion department at Albright College in Reading, Pennsylvania. His has authored African Biblical Studies (2022).
Alice Yafeh-Deigh is professor of biblical studies at Azusa Pacific University in Azusa, California. She is the author of Paul's Sexual and Marital Ethics in 1 Corinthians 7 (2015).
Tinyiko Maluleke is vice chancellor and principal at Tshwane University of Technology in Pretoria, South Africa. He is the coeditor of Ecumenical Encounters with Desmond Mpilo Tutu (2021).
Kenneth N. Ngwa is Donald J. Casper Professor of Hebrew Bible and African Biblical Hermeneutics at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois, and directs the Religion and Global Health Forum. He is the author of Let My People Live (2022).
