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English
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Narrative Revolutions in Nat Turner and Joseph Smith
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Envisioning Scripture: Joseph Smith's Revelations in Their Early American Contexts
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Signature Books
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205-236
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"Both [Nat] Turner and [Joseph] Smith, I will argue, strategically blur the narrative categories they inhabit. Their astonishing narratives [The Doctrine and Covenants and The Confessions of Nat Turner] 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. Turner and Smith both employed a type of mediated voice that challenged fundamental assumptions about individuality, subjectivity, and narrative authority. Nat Turner, by casting himself as a new Messiah and creating powerful testimony out of ventriloquized narrative, and Joseph Smith, by creating a theology that understands all humans as potential prophets-- and as potential gods-- participate in a fundamental revision of the meaning of prophetic voice in America." [Author]
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