Preacher woman sings the blues : the autobiographies of nineteenth-century African American evangelists /

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"Preacher Woman Sings the Blues begins with the study of black evangelists Belinda, Jarena Lee, and Zilpha Elaw, continuing with Rebecca Cox Jackson, Sojourner Truth, Julia Foote, Amanda Smith, Elizabeth, and Virginia Broughton. The author's discussion of Zora Neale Hurston focuses on how...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Douglass-Chin, Richard J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2001.
Temas:
African American evangelists > Biography.
African American women > Biography.
Prédicateurs noirs américains > Biographies.
Noires américaines > Biographies.
RELIGION > Christian Ministry > Evangelism.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Religious.
African American evangelists
African American women
Autobiografie
Evangelistin
Évangélistes (prédicateurs protestants) > États-Unis.
Noires américaines.
Schwärze
USA
collective biographies.
Biographies
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The cruelty of men whose faces were like the moon
  • Jarena Lee and Zilpha Elaw: the beginnings of African American women's Christian autobiography
  • Sojourner Truth and the embodiment of the blues-bad-preacher-woman text
  • Rebecca Cox Jackson and the Black vernacular text
  • The politics of conversion: Julia Foote and the sermonic text
  • Smith, Elizabeth, Broughton: the daughters' departure
  • Zora Neale Hurston: the daughter's return
  • The blues bad preacher women: (per)forming of self in the novels of contemporary African American women.

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