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Author:

Bassard, Katherine Clay, 1959-

Title:

Spiritual interrogations : culture, gender, and community in early African American women's writing / Katherine Clay Bassard.

Publisher:

Princeton University Press,

Copyright Date:

c1999

Description:

183 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Wheatley, Phillis,--1753-1784--Religion.
Wheatley, Phillis,--1753-1784--Religion.
American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Christianity and literature--United States--History.
Women and literature--United States--History.
Spirituals (Songs)--History and criticism.
Afro-American women--Religious life.
Afro-American women in literature.
Community life in literature.
Spiritual life in literature.
Religion and literature.
Religion and literature.
Community life in literature.
Spiritual life in literature.
Afro-American women in literature.
Afro-American women--Religious life.
Spirituals (Songs)--History and criticism.
Christianity and literature--United States--History.
American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-175) and index.

Contents:

ch. 7. Performing community: culture, community, and African American subjectivity before Emancipation. 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.

Series:

Princeton studies in culture/power/history

ISBN:

9780691016399 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0691016399 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780691016474 (pbk. : alk. paper)
069101647X (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)39108695

LCCN:

98023197

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OLAX314 -- Reu Memorial Library (Dubuque)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)