The Blackness of Liet-Kynes: Reading Frank Herbert's Dune Through James Cone
Frank Herbert's landmark science fiction novel Dune has received numerous sequels, prequels, and film treatments. Detailing the saga of humanity's far future beyond our present solar system, the work plays successfully with religious, political, and ecological themes. This essay deals with...
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Religions
Year: 2018, Volume: 9, Issue: 9, Pages: 1-10 |
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B Liberation Theology B Salvation B Soteriology B black liberation B Whiteness |
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| 520 | |a Frank Herbert's landmark science fiction novel Dune has received numerous sequels, prequels, and film treatments. Detailing the saga of humanity's far future beyond our present solar system, the work plays successfully with religious, political, and ecological themes. This essay deals with the social/theological implications of two figures within the story-world of Dune: Its protagonist and visible hero, Paul Atreides/Muad'Dib and the lesser figure of the Imperial Planetologist Dr. Kynes, also known to the Fremen as Liet. By reading these two figures through the theology of James Cone, we discover that the obvious hero is not a messianic figure but a demonic one. Further, it is the lesser character of Liet-Kynes who actually fulfills the messianic role in Cone's theological system. This essay is preceded by and makes use of Jeremy Ian Kirk's work with the film Avatar that provides similar analysis. Where Kirk's principal concern is with the ethical considerations of Avatar, this essay will more closely bear on Cone's dynamic of redemption and conversion, specifically his notion of dying to white identity to be reborn in blackness. | ||
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