05194nam 2200757 a 450 991096230820332120200520144314.001953477229780195347722(MiAaPQ)EBC7035736(CKB)24235095000041(MiAaPQ)EBC279710(Au-PeEL)EBL279710(CaPaEBR)ebr10085321(CaONFJC)MIL50319(OCoLC)191038691(OCoLC)50511471(FINmELB)ELB166149(Au-PeEL)EBL7035736(OCoLC)57137201(EXLCZ)992423509500004120020826d2003 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAmerican Lazarus religion and the rise of African-American and native American literatures /Joanna Brooks1st ed.Oxford ;New York Oxford University Press2003vi, 255 pIncludes bibliographical references (p. 229-247) and index.Intro -- 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 -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- W -- V -- Y -- Z.The 1780s and 1790s were a critical era for communities of color 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 bywhich 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 earlyBlack and Indian authors reinvented American evangelicalism and created new postslavery communities, new categories of racial identification, and new literary traditions.While shedding fresh light on the pioneering figures of African-American and Native American cultural history--including Samson Occom, Prince Hall, Richard Allen, Absalom Jones, and John Marrant--this work also explores a powerful set of little-known Black and Indian sermons, narratives, journals,and hymns. Chronicling the early American communities of color from the separatist Christian Indian settlement in upstate New York to the first African Lodge of Freemasons in Boston, it shows how eighteenth-century Black and Indian writers forever shaped the American experience of race and religion.American Lazarus offers a bold new vision of a foundational moment in American literature. It reveals the depth of early Black and Indian intellectual history and reassesses the political, literary, and cultural powers of religion in America.American 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 literatureAmerican 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 Joanna1971-1819899MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ9910962308203321American Lazarus4464695UNINA