Spiritual interrogations : culture, gender, and community in early African American women's writing
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Spiritual interrogations : culture, gender, and community in early African American women's writing
(Princeton studies in culture/power/history)
Princeton University Press, c1999
- : pbk
Available at 21 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-175) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This work is a 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. The 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 the author calls a "spiritual matrix" which transformed existing literary genres to accommodate the spiritual music and sacred rituals tied to the African diaspora.
by "Nielsen BookData"