LEADER 04266nam 2200817 a 450 001 9910450338903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-280-50319-X 010 $a0-19-534772-2 010 $a1-60256-970-3 035 $a(CKB)1000000000029152 035 $a(EBL)279710 035 $a(OCoLC)191038691 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000102239 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11133073 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000102239 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10049660 035 $a(PQKB)10023898 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC279710 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL279710 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10085321 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL50319 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000029152 100 $a20020826d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAmerican Lazarus$b[electronic resource] $ereligion and the rise of African-American and native American literatures /$fJoanna Brooks 210 $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2003 215 $a1 online resource (264 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-516078-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 229-247) and index. 327 $aContents; 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 330 $aThe 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 Black 606 $aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aChristianity and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aAmerican literature$yRevolutionary period, 1775-1783$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$yColonial period, ca. 1600-1775$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$xIndian authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$y1783-1850$xHistory and criticism 606 $aHymns, English$zUnited States$xHistory and criticism 606 $aChristian literature, American$xHistory and criticism 606 $aIndians of North America$xIntellectual life 606 $aAfrican Americans$xIntellectual life 606 $aAfrican Americans in literature 606 $aIndians in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aChristianity and literature$xHistory 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xIndian authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aHymns, English$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aChristian literature, American$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aIndians of North America$xIntellectual life. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xIntellectual life. 615 0$aAfrican Americans in literature. 615 0$aIndians in literature. 676 $a810.9/96073 700 $aBrooks$b Joanna$f1971-$0953020 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910450338903321 996 $aAmerican Lazarus$92154630 997 $aUNINA