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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910968180103321
• Autore: Haywood Chanta M. <1968->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, c2003
• ISBN: 0-8262-6299-6
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: In nineteenth-century America, many black women left their homes, their husbands, and their children to spread the Word of God.Descendants of slaves or former "slave girls" themselves, they traveled all over the country, even abroad, preaching to audiences composed of various races, denominations, sexes, and classes, offering their own.