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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783005903321

Autore

Haywood Chanta M. <1968->

Titolo

Prophesying daughters [[electronic resource] ] : Black women preachers and the Word, 1823-1913 / / Chanta M. Haywood

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, c2003

ISBN

0-8262-6299-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (160 p.)

Disciplina

251/.0082/0973

Soggetti

African American women clergy - History - 19th century

African American women clergy - History - 20th century

Prophecy - Christianity - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-137) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The prophesying daughters : biographical and historical background -- The act of prophesying : nineteenth-century Black women preachers and Black literary history -- Prophetic change : Jarena Lee's and Julia Foote's uses of conversion rhetoric in the context of reader distrust -- Prophetic journeying : the trope of travel in Black women preachers' narratives -- Prophetic reading : Black women preachers and biblical interpretation -- Prophetic works : prophesying daughters and social activism--the case of Frances Joseph Gaudet -- Can I get a witness? : the implications of prophesying for African American literary studies.