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English
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Narrative Revolutions in Nat Turner and Joseph Smith
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American Literary History
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2012
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24
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Oxford University Press
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"Two particularly charismatic and divisive prophets emerged on the national scene : in April 1830, Joseph Smith, claiming to have miraculously discovered and translated the Book of Mormon, founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; and in August 1831, the slave Nat Turner, citing visions from God, organized a bloody slave revolt, killing dozens of local families and setting off panicked reactions throughout the South. Their astonishing narratives help us to reconfigure our understanding of the Second Great Awakening and its impact—both theological and narratological. Though the pairing is an unlikely one, bringing together Turner and Smith reveals the ways that the Second Great Awakening crosses racial and regional boundaries and creates a new public understanding of prophecy."
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