Spiritual Interrogations : Culture, Gender, and Community in Early African American Women's Writing /

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The late eighteenth century witnessed an influx of black women to the slave-trading ports of the American Northeast. The formation of an early African American community, bound together by shared experiences and spiritual values, owed much to these women's voices. The significance of their writ...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bassard, Katherine Clay (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [1999]
Edición:Course Book
Colección:Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
Temas:
African American women in literature.
African American women > Intellectual life.
African American women > Religious life.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
American literature > African American authors.
American literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
American literature > Women authors.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Christianity and literature > United States.
Community life in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Religion and literature > United States.
Spiritual life in literature.
Spirituals (Songs) > History and criticism.
Women and literature > United States.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African-American.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One. The Daughters' Arrival: Histories, Theories, Vernaculars
  • Chapter Two. Diaspora Subjectivity and Transatlantic Crossings: Phillis Wheatley's Poetics of Recovery
  • Chapter Three. "The Too Advent'rous Strain": Slavery, Conversion, and Poetic Empowerment in Phillis Wheatley's Elegies
  • Chapter Four. "Social Piety" in Ann Plato's Essays
  • Chapter Five. "I Took a Text": Itinerancy, Community, and Intertextuality in Jarena Lee's Spiritual Narratives
  • Chapter Six. Rituals of Desire: Spirit, Culture, and Sexuality in the Writings of Rebecca Cox Jackson
  • Chapter Seven. Performing Community: Culture, Community, and African American Subjectivity before Emancipation
  • Afterword. The Sacred Subject
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index

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