Spiritual Interrogations : : Culture, Gender, and Community in Early African American Women's Writing / / Katherine Clay Bassard.
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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Bassard, Katherine Clay, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Spiritual Interrogations : Culture, Gender, and Community in Early African American Women's Writing / Katherine Clay Bassard. Course Book Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [1999] ©1999 1 online resource (192 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History 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 restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 writings would be profound for all African Americans' sense of their own identity as a people. Katherine Clay Bassard's book is the first detailed account of pre-Emancipation writings from the period of 1760 to 1863, in light of a developing African American religious culture and emerging free black communities. Her study--which examines the relationship among race, culture, and community--focuses on four women: the poet Phillis Wheatley and poet and essayist Ann Plato, both Congregationalists; and the itinerant preacher Jarena Lee, and Shaker eldress Rebecca Cox Jackson, who, with Lee, had connections with African Methodism. Together, these women drew on what Bassard calls a "spirituals matrix," which transformed existing literary genres to accommodate the spiritual music and sacred rituals tied to the African diaspora. Bassard's important illumination of these writers resurrects their path-breaking work. They were cocreators, with all black women who followed, of African American intellectual life. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) 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. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 9783110442496 print 9780691016474 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400822591 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400822591 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400822591.jpg |
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Bassard, Katherine Clay, Bassard, Katherine Clay, Spiritual Interrogations : Culture, Gender, and Community in Early African American Women's Writing / Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History 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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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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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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