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Author:

Douglass-Chin, Richard J.

Title:

Preacher woman sings the blues : the autobiographies of nineteenth-century African American evangelists / Richard J. Douglass-Chin.

Publisher:

University of Missouri Press,

Copyright Date:

c2001

Description:

ix, 228 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

African American evangelists--Biography.
African American women--Biography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-219) and index.

Contents:

The cruelty of men whose faces were like the moon -- Jarena Lee and Zilpha Elaw: the beginnings of African American women's Christian autobiography -- Sojourner Truth and the embodiment of the blues-bad-preacher-woman text -- Rebecca Cox Jackson and the Black vernacular text -- The politics of conversion: Julia Foote and the sermonic text -- Smith, Elizabeth, Broughton: the daughters' departure -- Zora Neale Hurston: the daughter's return -- The blues bad preacher women: (per)forming of self in the novels of contemporary African American women.

ISBN:

9780826213112 (alk. paper)
0826213111 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)45487319

LCCN:

00066596

Locations:

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

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)