Bassard Spiritual Interrogations

Culture, Gender, and Community in Early African American Women's Writing
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2259-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 192 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Bassard, Katherine Clay

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction 3

Ch. 1 The Daughters' Arrival: Histories, Theories, Vernaculars 10

Ch. 2 Diaspora Subjectivity and Transatlantic Crossings: Phillis Wheatley's Poetics of Recovery 28

Ch. 3 "The Too Advent'rous Strain": Slavery, Conversion, and Poetic Empowerment in Phillis Wheatley's Elegies 58

Ch. 4 "Social Piety" in Ann Plato's Essays 71

Ch. 5 "I Took a Text": Itinerancy, Community, and Intertextuality in Jarena Lee's Spiritual Narratives 87

Ch. 6 Rituals of Desire: Spirit, Culture, and Sexuality in the Writings of Rebecca Cox Jackson 108

Ch. 7 Performing Community: Culture, Community, and African American Subjectivity before Emancipation 127

Afterword: The Sacred Subject 140

Notes 143

Selected Bibliography 165

Index 177

Über Autor(innen)

Katherine Clay Bassard is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. Her articles have been published in African American Review and Callaloo.