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

Publication Info.	Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2001]
	©2001

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Description	1 online resource (ix, 228 pages)
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.
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Subject	African American evangelists -- Biography.
	African American evangelists.
Genre/Form	Biographies.
Subject	African American women -- Biography.
	African American women -- Biography.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Biographies.
Other Form:	Print version: Douglass-Chin, Richard J. Preacher woman sings the blues. Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2001 0826213111 (DLC) 00066596 (OCoLC)45487319
ISBN	0826263011 (electronic book)
	9780826263018 (electronic book)
	9780826213112 (alkaline paper)
	0826213111 (alkaline paper)