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Spiritual interrogations : culture, gender, and community in early African American women's writing
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- Creator
- Katherine Clay Bassard
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1999
- ©1999
- Physical Details
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- 183 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780691016474, 1400810922, 069101647X, 1282753444, 9781400810925, 9786612753442, 1400822599, 9781400822591, 0691016399, 9780691016399
- OCLC
- ocm51533719, ocn979685327, ocm39108695, ocn705527033, ocn984665859
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-175) and index.
- ch. 1. Daughters' arrival: histories, theories, vernaculars -- ch. 2. Diaspora subjectivity and transatlantic crossings: Phillis Wheatley's poetics of recovery -- ch. 3. "The too advent'rous strain": slavery, conversion, and poetic empowerment in Phillis Wheatley's elegies -- ch. 4. "Social piety" in Ann Plato's Essays -- ch. 5. "I took a text": itinerancy, community, and intertextuality in Jarena Lee's spiritual narratives -- ch. 6. Rituals of desire: spirit, culture, and sexuality in the writigns of Rebecca Cox Jackson -- ch. 7. Performing community: culture, community, and African American subjectivity before Emancipation
Subjects
- Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784 -- Religion.
- American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
- American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
- American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
- Christianity and literature -- United States.
- Religion and literature -- United States.
- Women and literature -- United States.
- Spirituals (Songs) -- History and criticism.
- African American women -- Intellectual life.
- African American women -- Religious life.
- African American women in literature.
- Community life in literature.
- Spiritual life in literature.
- Christianity and literature -- United States -- History.
- Women and literature -- United States -- History.
- Religion and literature.