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

Publication Info.	Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1999]
	©1999

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Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	PS153.B53 B33 1999	Available	---

Description	183 pages ; 24 cm.
Series	Princeton studies in culture/power/history
	Princeton studies in culture/power/history.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.
Subject	American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
	American literature -- African American authors.
	American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
	American literature -- Women authors.
	American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
	American literature.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	Christianity and literature -- United States -- History.
	Christianity and literature.
	United States.
	History.
	Women and literature -- United States -- History.
	Women and literature.
	Spirituals (Songs) -- History and criticism.
	Spirituals (Songs)
	Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784 -- Religion.
	Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784.
	Religion.
	African American women -- Religious life.
	African American women -- Religious life.
	African American women in literature.
	African American women in literature.
	Community life in literature.
	Community life in literature.
	Spiritual life in literature.
	Spiritual life in literature.
	Religion and literature.
	Religion and literature.
	Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784 -- Religion.
	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 -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
	American literature -- Afro-American authors -- History and criticism.
ISBN	069101647X paperback alkaline paper
	0691016399 hardcover alkaline paper

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