Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The prophesying daughters : biographical and historical background
  • The act of prophesying : nineteenth-century Black women preachers and Black literary history
  • Prophetic change : Jarena Lee's and Julia Foote's uses of conversion rhetoric in the context of reader distrust
  • Prophetic journeying : the trope of travel in Black women preachers' narratives
  • Prophetic reading : Black women preachers and biblical interpretation
  • Prophetic works : prophesying daughters and social activism--the case of Frances Joseph Gaudet
  • Can I get a witness? : the implications of prophesying for African American literary studies.