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Autore: | Douglass-Chin Richard J |
Titolo: | Preacher woman sings the blues : the autobiographies of nineteenth-century African American evangelists / / Richard J. Douglass-Chin |
Pubblicazione: | Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, c2001 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (ix, 228 pages) |
Disciplina: | 269/.2/092396073 |
B | |
Soggetto topico: | African American evangelists |
African American women | |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-219) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | The cruelty of men whose faces were like the moon Jarena Lee and Zilpha Elaw: the beginnings of African American women's Christian autobiography Sojourner Truth and the embodiment of the blues-bad-preacher-woman text Rebecca Cox Jackson and the Black vernacular text The politics of conversion: Julia Foote and the sermonic text Smith, Elizabeth, Broughton: the daughters' departure Zora Neale Hurston: the daughter's return The blues bad preacher women: (per)forming of self in the novels of contemporary African American women |
Sommario/riassunto: | "Preacher Woman Sings the Blues begins with the study of black evangelists Belinda, Jarena Lee, and Zilpha Elaw, continuing with Rebecca Cox Jackson, Sojourner Truth, Julia Foote, Amanda Smith, Elizabeth, and Virginia Broughton. The author's discussion of Zora Neale Hurston focuses on how Hurston operates as a connection between early black women evangelist writers and black women writing in America today. He ends with the works of Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, and Toni Cade Bambara." "By examining the early traditions prefiguring contemporary African American women's text and the impact that race and gender have on them, Douglas-Chin shows how the nineteenth-century black women's works are still of utmost importance to many African American writers today. Preacher Woman Sings the Blues makes a valuable contribution to literary criticism and theoretical analysis and will be welcomed by scholars and students alike."--Jacket |
Titolo autorizzato: | Preacher woman sings the blues |
ISBN: | 0-8262-6301-1 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910814705303321 |
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