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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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [1999] ©1999 |
Year of Publication: | 1999 |
Edition: | Course Book |
Language: | English |
Series: | Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (192 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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