LEADER 05085nam 2200805 a 450 001 9910823281603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4008-1504-5 010 $a1-282-75344-4 010 $a9786612753442 010 $a1-4008-2259-9 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400822591 035 $a(CKB)2670000000044935 035 $a(EBL)617299 035 $a(OCoLC)705527033 035 $a(DE-B1597)446258 035 $a(OCoLC)979685327 035 $a(OCoLC)984665859 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400822591 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC617299 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000044935 100 $a19980501d1999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|nu---|u||u 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSpiritual interrogations $eculture, gender, and community in early African American women's writing /$fKatherine Clay Bassard 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc1999 215 $a1 online resource (194 p.) 225 1 $aPrinceton studies in culture/power/history 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4008-0037-4 311 $a0-691-01647-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [165]-175) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$tChapter One. The Daughters' Arrival: Histories, Theories, Vernaculars --$tChapter Two. Diaspora Subjectivity and Transatlantic Crossings: Phillis Wheatley's Poetics of Recovery --$tChapter Three. "The Too Advent'rous Strain": Slavery, Conversion, and Poetic Empowerment in Phillis Wheatley's Elegies --$tChapter Four. "Social Piety" in Ann Plato's Essays --$tChapter Five. "I Took a Text": Itinerancy, Community, and Intertextuality in Jarena Lee's Spiritual Narratives --$tChapter Six. Rituals of Desire: Spirit, Culture, and Sexuality in the Writings of Rebecca Cox Jackson --$tChapter Seven. Performing Community: Culture, Community, and African American Subjectivity before Emancipation --$tAfterword. The Sacred Subject --$tNotes --$tSelected Bibliography --$tIndex 330 $aThe late eighteenth century witnessed an influx of black women to the slave-trading ports of the American Northeast. The formation of an early African American community, bound together by shared experiences and spiritual values, owed much to these women's voices. The significance of their writings would be profound for all African Americans' sense of their own identity as a people. Katherine Clay Bassard's book is the first detailed account of pre-Emancipation writings from the period of 1760 to 1863, in light of a developing African American religious culture and emerging free black communities. Her study--which examines the relationship among race, culture, and community--focuses on four women: the poet Phillis Wheatley and poet and essayist Ann Plato, both Congregationalists; and the itinerant preacher Jarena Lee, and Shaker eldress Rebecca Cox Jackson, who, with Lee, had connections with African Methodism. Together, these women drew on what Bassard calls a "spirituals matrix," which transformed existing literary genres to accommodate the spiritual music and sacred rituals tied to the African diaspora. Bassard's important illumination of these writers resurrects their path-breaking work. They were cocreators, with all black women who followed, of African American intellectual life. 410 0$aPrinceton studies in culture/power/history. 606 $aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aChristianity and literature$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aWomen and literature$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aSpirituals (Songs)$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAfrican American women$xReligious life 606 $aAfrican American women in literature 606 $aCommunity life in literature 606 $aSpiritual life in literature 606 $aReligion and literature 615 0$aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aChristianity and literature$xHistory. 615 0$aWomen and literature$xHistory. 615 0$aSpirituals (Songs)$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAfrican American women$xReligious life. 615 0$aAfrican American women in literature. 615 0$aCommunity life in literature. 615 0$aSpiritual life in literature. 615 0$aReligion and literature. 676 $a810.9/382 700 $aBassard$b Katherine Clay$f1959-$01600347 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910823281603321 996 $aSpiritual Interrogations$93923389 997 $aUNINA