04266nam 2200817 a 450 991045033890332120200520144314.01-280-50319-X0-19-534772-21-60256-970-3(CKB)1000000000029152(EBL)279710(OCoLC)191038691(SSID)ssj0000102239(PQKBManifestationID)11133073(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000102239(PQKBWorkID)10049660(PQKB)10023898(MiAaPQ)EBC279710(Au-PeEL)EBL279710(CaPaEBR)ebr10085321(CaONFJC)MIL50319(EXLCZ)99100000000002915220020826d2003 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrAmerican Lazarus[electronic resource] religion and the rise of African-American and native American literatures /Joanna BrooksOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20031 online resource (264 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-516078-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-247) and index.Contents; Introduction; 1: Race, Religion, and Regeneration; 2: Samson Occom and the Poetics of Native Revival; 3: John Marrant and the Lazarus Theology of the Early Black Atlantic; 4: Prince Hall Freemasonry: Secrecy, Authority, and Culture; 5: Black Identity and Yellow Fever in Philadelphia; Conclusion: Lazarus Lives; Appendix 1: Samson Occom's Collection of Divine Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1774); Appendix 2: Author-Unknown Hymns Original to Occom's Collection; Appendix 3: Original Hymns by Samson Occom; Notes; Bibliography; IndexThe 1780's and 1790's were a critical era for communities of colour in the new United States of America. Even Thomas Jefferson observed that in the aftermath of the American Revolution, ""the spirit of the master is abating, that of the slave rising from the dust."" This book explores the means by which the very first Black and Indian authors rose up to transform their communities and the course of American literary history. It argues that the origins of modern African-American and American Indian literatures emerged at the revolutionary crossroads of religion and racial formation as early BlackAmerican literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismChristianity and literatureUnited StatesHistory18th centuryAmerican literatureRevolutionary period, 1775-1783History and criticismAmerican literatureColonial period, ca. 1600-1775History and criticismAmerican literatureIndian authorsHistory and criticismAmerican literature1783-1850History and criticismHymns, EnglishUnited StatesHistory and criticismChristian literature, AmericanHistory and criticismIndians of North AmericaIntellectual lifeAfrican AmericansIntellectual lifeAfrican Americans in literatureIndians in literatureElectronic books.American literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism.Christianity and literatureHistoryAmerican literatureHistory and criticism.American literatureHistory and criticism.American literatureIndian authorsHistory and criticism.American literatureHistory and criticism.Hymns, EnglishHistory and criticism.Christian literature, AmericanHistory and criticism.Indians of North AmericaIntellectual life.African AmericansIntellectual life.African Americans in literature.Indians in literature.810.9/96073Brooks Joanna1971-953020MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910450338903321American Lazarus2154630UNINA