04061nam 2201081z- 450 991055731680332120231214133626.0(CKB)5400000000042687(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/68525(EXLCZ)99540000000004268720202105d2021 |y 0engurmn|---annantxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrier"My Soul Is A Witness"Reimagining African American Women's Spirituality and the Black Female Body in African American LiteratureBasel, SwitzerlandMDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute20211 electronic resource (138 p.)3-0365-0082-0 3-0365-0083-9 This special collection assembles some of the most pre-eminent scholars in the field in African, African American, and American Studies to explore the ways writers reclaim the Black female body in African American literature using the theoretical, social, cultural, and religious frameworks of spirituality and religion. Central to these discussions is Black women’s agency within these realms—their uncanny ability to invent and reinvent themselves within individual and communal spaces that frame them as both outsider and insider, unworthy and worthy, deviant and sacred, excess and minimal. Scholars have sought to discuss these tensions, acknowledged and affirmed in prose, poetry, music, essays, speeches, written plays, or short stories. Forgiveness, healing, redemption, and reclamation provide entry into these vibrant explorations of self-discovery, passion, and self-creation that interrogate traditional views of what is spiritual and what is religious. Discussed writers include Toni Morrison, Phillis Wheatley, James Baldwin, Tina McElroy Ansa, Toni Cade Bambara, and Thomas Dorsey.“My Soul Is A Witness” “My Soul Is A Witness” Religion & beliefsbicsschealthhealingancestral mediationillnessactivismwomen's rightsspiritualityOshuneroticismGodOyaghostspiritshoneystormscaulthe amen cornerjames baldwinblack feminismsermonartliteraturemusicblack preacherreligiongospel musicThomas DorseyNettie Dorseybluesmaternal deathinfant mortalityhapticalityGnosticismwomanist theologyAfrican American womenToni MorrisonSong of SolomonParadiseThe Source of Self-RegardPhillis WheatleyraceThomas JeffersonChristianityAfrican American women writers1970extra-naturalismAfrican American women's spiritualitynommomultimodal narrativeself-actualizationcommunityasylum hill projectnamingpre-emancipationgenealogygrounds of contention(in)visiblerevisionist interrogationspiritual translationuppitywomanistReligion & beliefsHenderson Caroledt1328886Henderson CarolothBOOK9910557316803321“My Soul Is A Witness”3039078UNINA