Document Type
Article
Publication Title
The Role of Faith and Religious Diversity in Educational Practices
Abstract
Toni Morrison's Beloved challenges Western sensibilities about love, kinship, sacrifice, and spirituality. A Black teacher's dissertation study about revolutionary love (RL) for her Advanced Placement Literature students inspired this chapter. In it, the authors discuss two Black women teachers' kinship relationship and love for literature as revolutionary. Their collaborative autoethnographic account explores the influence of RL on mitigating the impact of intersectional oppression on our lived experiences. Moreover, the chapter illuminates the endarkened feminist underpinnings of their personal and spiritual connections: first, within a high school English classroom and now as colleagues and co-researchers. The chapter provides teaching strategies to guide spirit-led teachers in embodying RL for their students. It concludes with a call-and-response benediction for spirit-led teachers and their students.
DOI
10.4018/978-1-6684-9184-3.ch001
Publication Date
2023
ISBN
9781668491843
Recommended Citation
Dunlap, Shekema S. and Wright, D'Andrea N., "Answering the Call of Revolutionary Love Through Literature: A Collaborative Autoethnography Framed in Toni Morrison's Beloved" (2023). Student Publications. 1.
https://arch.astate.edu/ebs-elcs-stupub/1
