Preacher woman sings the blues : the autobiographies of nineteenth-century African American evangelists
First Statement of Responsibility
/ Richard J. Douglass-Chin
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Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Columbia; London
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: University Of Missouri press
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
, 2001.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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ix, 228 p.
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Code E.Book: 2999
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Index
CONTENTS NOTE
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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.