LEADER 05126nam 2200733 a 450 001 9910815778503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 0 $a0195347722 010 0 $a9780195347722 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7035736 035 $a(CKB)24235095000041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC279710 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL279710 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10085321 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL50319 035 $a(OCoLC)191038691 035 $a(OCoLC)50511471 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB166149 035 $a(EXLCZ)9924235095000041 100 $a20020826d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAmerican Lazarus $ereligion and the rise of African-American and native American literatures /$fJoanna Brooks 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2003 215 $avi, 255 p 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 229-247) and index. 327 $aIntro -- 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. 330 $aThe 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. 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 $aIndians in literature 615 0$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-$01600919 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910815778503321 996 $aAmerican Lazarus$94084946 997 $aUNINA