Not Wanting a Thing to Be the Thing: An African American Woman Biblical Scholar's Stroke Memoir - Softcover

Smith, Mitzi J.

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798385236411

Publisher: Cascade Books, 2025

Synopsis

Not Wanting a Thing to Be the Thing is the first stroke memoir written by a Black woman biblical scholar. Smith’s story is her mother’s story, and it is not. It is the story of other stroke survivors, and it is not. It is a unique telling of the civil war that erupts in her body. It is a journey of not knowing, awareness, survival, fragmentation, discovery, and recovery. Smith’s story is inspiring, amazing, brilliant, funny, thought-provoking, and revelatory. She has a gift for bringing her readers into each space to see what she sees and feel what she feels.

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About the Author

Mitzi J. Smith is J. Davison Philips Professor of New Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary and Professor Extraordinarius at the University of South Africa, College of the Humanities, Institute of Gender Studies. She co-edited Bitter the Chastening Rod (2022); co-authored Toward Decentering the New Testament (2018); and authored Womanist Sass and Talk Back: Social (In)Justice, Intersectionality and Biblical Interpretation (2018).

Edition details

• Publisher: Cascade Books
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798385236411
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 194