Spiritual interrogations : culture, gender, and community in early African American women's writing
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Spiritual interrogations : culture, gender, and community in early African American women's writing
（Princeton studies in culture/power/history）
Princeton University Press, c1999
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-175) and index
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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.
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