Spiritual Interrogations : Culture, Gender, and Community in Early African American Women's Writing / / Katherine Clay Bassard

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910459292503321
• Autore: Bassard Katherine Clay
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [1999]; ©1999
• ISBN: 1-282-75344-4; 9786612753442; 1-4008-2259-9
• Edizione: [Course Book]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (194 p.)
• Collana: Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
• Disciplina: 810.9/382
• Soggetti: African American women -- Intellectual life; African American women -- Religious life; African American women in literature; American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism; American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Christianity and literature -- United States; Community life in literature; Religion and literature -- United States; Spiritual life in literature; Spirituals (Songs) -- History and criticism; Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784 -- Religion; Women and literature -- United States; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One. The Daughters' Arrival: Histories, Theories, Vernaculars -- Chapter Two. Diaspora Subjectivity and Transatlantic Crossings: Phillis Wheatley's Poetics of Recovery -- Chapter Three. "The Too Advent'rous Strain": Slavery, Conversion, and Poetic Empowerment in ; Phillis Wheatley's Elegies -- Chapter Four. "Social Piety" in Ann Plato's Essays -- Chapter Five. "I Took a Text": Itinerancy, Community, and Intertextuality in Jarena Lee's Spiritual Narratives -- Chapter Six. Rituals of Desire: Spirit, Culture, and Sexuality in the Writings of Rebecca Cox Jackson -- Chapter Seven. Performing Community: Culture, Community, and African American Subjectivity before Emancipation -- Afterword. The Sacred Subject -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The late eighteenth century witnessed an influx of black women to the slave-trading ports of the American Northeast. The formation of an early African American community, bound together by shared experiences and spiritual values, owed much to these women's voices. The significance of their writings would be profound for all African Americans' sense of their own identity as a people. Katherine Clay Bassard's book is the first detailed account of pre-Emancipation writings from the period of 1760 to 1863, in light of a developing African American religious culture and emerging free black communities. Her study--which examines the relationship among race, culture, and community--focuses on four women: the poet Phillis Wheatley and poet and essayist Ann Plato, both Congregationalists; and the itinerant preacher Jarena Lee, and Shaker eldress Rebecca Cox Jackson, who, with Lee, had connections with African Methodism. Together, these women drew on what Bassard calls a "spirituals matrix," which transformed existing literary genres to accommodate the spiritual music and sacred rituals tied to the African diaspora. Bassard's important illumination of these writers resurrects their path-breaking work. They were cocreators, with all black women who followed, of African American intellectual life.

Poetic affairs [[electronic resource] ] : Celan, Grünbein, Brodsky / / Michael Eskin

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910462335203321
• Autore: Eskin Michael
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, c2008
• ISBN: 0-8047-8681-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (253 p.)
• Collana: Verbal Art: Studies in Poetics; Verbal art
• Disciplina: 831/.914
• Soggetti: Poetics; Subjectivity in literature; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-225) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Prefatory Note; Introduction: On Poetry, Life, Method, and Sundry Affairs; 1. Creative Fidelities; 2. From Encounter to Tryst: Celan and Shakespeare; 3. Metaphors of Subjectivity: Grünbein and the Philosophers; 4. What's in a Name? Brodsky and the English Muse; Closing Remarks; Appendix: Constellations; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Poetic Affairs deals with the complex and fascinating interface between literature and life through the prism of the lives and works of the German-Jewish poet and Holocaust survivor, Paul Celan (1920-70), the Leningrad native, US poet laureate, and Nobel Prize winner, Joseph Brodsky (1940-96), and the most significant contemporary German poet, Durs Grünbein (born 1962).