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Spiritual interrogations : culture, gender, and community in early African American women's writing
- Title
- Spiritual interrogations : culture, gender, and community in early African American women's writing / Katherine Clay Bassard.
- Author
- Bassard, Katherine Clay, 1959-
- Publication
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1999.
- ©1999.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | PS153.N5 B33 1999 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 183 pages; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Princeton studies in culture/power/history
- Uniform Title
- Princeton studies in culture/power/history
- Subject
- Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784 > Religion
- Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784
- Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
- 1800-1899
- Geschichte 1750-1850
- Geschichte 1750-1870
- American literature > African American authors > History and criticism
- American literature > Women authors > History and criticism
- American literature > 19th century > History and criticism
- Christianity and literature > United States
- Religion and literature > United States
- Women and literature > United States
- Spirituals (Songs) > History and criticism
- African American women > Intellectual life
- African American women > Religious life
- African American women in literature
- Community life in literature
- Spiritual life in literature
- Christianity and literature > United States > History
- Women and literature > United States > History
- Religion and literature
- African American women in literature
- African American women > Intellectual life
- African American women > Religious life
- American literature
- American literature > African American authors
- American literature > Women authors
- Christianity and literature
- Community life in literature
- Religion
- Religion and literature
- Spiritual life in literature
- Spirituals (Songs)
- Women and literature
- Frauenliteratur
- Schwarze Frau
- United States
- USA
- Genre/Form
- History
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-175) and index.
- Contents
- ch. 1. Daughters' arrival: histories, theories, vernaculars -- 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.
- ISBN
- 0691016399
- 9780691016399
- 069101647X
- 9780691016474
- LCCN
- 98023197
- OCLC
- ocm39108695
- 39108695
- SCSB-541981
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library