| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 228 pages) |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
"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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-219) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
African American evangelists -- Biography
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African American women -- Biography
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RELIGION -- Christian Ministry -- Evangelism.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Religious.
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African American evangelists
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African American women
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Autobiografie
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Evangelistin
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Évangélistes (prédicateurs protestants) -- États-Unis.
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Noires américaines.
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Schwärze
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USA
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| Genre/Form |
collective biographies.
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Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0826263011 |
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9780826263018 |
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9780826213112 |
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0826213111 |
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