LEADER 04061nam 2201081z- 450 001 9910557316803321 005 20231214133626.0 035 $a(CKB)5400000000042687 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/68525 035 $a(EXLCZ)995400000000042687 100 $a20202105d2021 |y 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn|---annan 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$a"My Soul Is A Witness"$eReimagining African American Women's Spirituality and the Black Female Body in African American Literature 210 $aBasel, Switzerland$cMDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute$d2021 215 $a1 electronic resource (138 p.) 311 $a3-0365-0082-0 311 $a3-0365-0083-9 330 $aThis 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. 517 $a“My Soul Is A Witness” 517 $a?My Soul Is A Witness? 606 $aReligion & beliefs$2bicssc 610 $ahealth 610 $ahealing 610 $aancestral mediation 610 $aillness 610 $aactivism 610 $awomen's rights 610 $aspirituality 610 $aOshun 610 $aeroticism 610 $aGod 610 $aOya 610 $aghost 610 $aspirits 610 $ahoney 610 $astorms 610 $acaul 610 $athe amen corner 610 $ajames baldwin 610 $ablack feminism 610 $asermon 610 $aart 610 $aliterature 610 $amusic 610 $ablack preacher 610 $areligion 610 $agospel music 610 $aThomas Dorsey 610 $aNettie Dorsey 610 $ablues 610 $amaternal death 610 $ainfant mortality 610 $ahapticality 610 $aGnosticism 610 $awomanist theology 610 $aAfrican American women 610 $aToni Morrison 610 $aSong of Solomon 610 $aParadise 610 $aThe Source of Self-Regard 610 $aPhillis Wheatley 610 $arace 610 $aThomas Jefferson 610 $aChristianity 610 $aAfrican American women writers 610 $a1970 610 $aextra-naturalism 610 $aAfrican American women's spirituality 610 $anommo 610 $amultimodal narrative 610 $aself-actualization 610 $acommunity 610 $aasylum hill project 610 $anaming 610 $apre-emancipation 610 $agenealogy 610 $agrounds of contention 610 $a(in)visible 610 $arevisionist interrogation 610 $aspiritual translation 610 $auppity 610 $awomanist 615 7$aReligion & beliefs 700 $aHenderson$b Carol$4edt$01328886 702 $aHenderson$b Carol$4oth 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910557316803321 996 $a?My Soul Is A Witness?$93039078 997 $aUNINA