ISBN: 9780691016399

The 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 b… Plus…

The 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. Media > Book, [PU: Princeton University Press]<

1999, ISBN: 0691016399

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[EAN: 9780691016399], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.], CHRISTIANITY LITERATURE SPIRITUALS SONGS HISTORY CRITICISM WHEATLEY PHILLIS 1… Plus…

[EAN: 9780691016399], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.], CHRISTIANITY LITERATURE SPIRITUALS SONGS HISTORY CRITICISM WHEATLEY PHILLIS 1753 1784 WOMEN AFRO AMERICANS RELIGION AMERICAN AUTHORS 19TH CENTURY LITERARY GENERAL AFRICAN MUSIC GOSPEL SOCIAL SCIENCE STUDIES, Language Study|African Languages , History|General, Literary Criticism|General, Music|General, Religion|Christianity|General, Science|General, Social Science|General, Science|History, History|Social History, Name on FEP. Very light wear.Slightly cocked. 183 pp.<

1999, ISBN: 0691016399

[EAN: 9780691016399], [SC: 22.78], [PU: Princeton University Press 1999.], BLACK LITERATURE 0, Literary Criticism|American|African-American, Literary Criticism|American|General, Literary … Plus…

[EAN: 9780691016399], [SC: 22.78], [PU: Princeton University Press 1999.], BLACK LITERATURE 0, Literary Criticism|American|African-American, Literary Criticism|American|General, Literary Criticism|General, Literary Criticism|Poetry, Literary Criticism|Women Authors, Music|Gospel, Religion|Christianity|General, Social Science|Ethnic Studies|African-American Studies, Hardcover. 8vo. 183pp. Condition: Book - Very Good; Dustjacket - No dj.<