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NOTES
Introduction
1. A number of scholars who have investigated the apocalypse in the American
literary tradition include a discussion of the African-American novel within the
larger context of the American novel and its archetypes. See Robinson, American
Apocalypse; R. W. B. Lewis, Trials of the Word; and May, Toward a New Earth.
2. Smitherman is among the first linguists to devote attention to a formal analy-
sis of black language structures. She refers to the religious practice of testifying,
which entails one's giving public witness concerning God's benevolence. See Talkin'
and Testifyin,' 8-22.
3. I am indebted to the following sources for an understanding of the history
surrounding the production of apocalypse and its religious and secular manifesta-
tions: Russell, Apocalyptic: Ancient and Modern; Charles, Studies in the Apocalypse; and
R. W. B. Lewis, Trials of the Word, 184-235.
4. Blassingame, The Slave Community; Herskovitz, The Myth of the Negro Past; Levine,
Black Culture and Black Consciousness; and Raboteau, Slave Religion.
5. Cone discusses the double meaning associated with the conception of heaven
among African Americans in The Spirituals and the Blues, 86-107. Fisher's discussion of
this concept is grounded in his study of the spirituals as "oral historical documents."
See Negro Slave Songs in the United States, 111-32.
6. Cone, The Spirituals and the Blues, 106. The most complete statement of Cone's
theological views appears in Black Theology and Black Power.
7. Moses, Black Messiahs and Uncle Toms, and Howard-Pitney, The Afro-American Jeremiad.

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