Transforming scriptures : African American women writers and the Bible /

Transforming scriptures : African American women writers and the Bible /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bassard, Katherine Clay, 1959-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2010]
Subjects:
Bible > In literature.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
American literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
African American women > Religion.
African American women in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Talking mules and troubled hermeneutics: Black women's biblical self-disclosures
  • Private interpretations: the Bible defense of slavery and nineteenth-century racial hermeneutics
  • Sampling the scriptures: Maria W. Stewart and the genre of prayer
  • Hannah's craft: biblical passing in The bondwoman's narrative
  • "Beyond mortal vision": identification and miscegenation in the Joseph cycle and Harriet E. Wilson's Our Nig
  • And the greatest of these: eros, philos, and agape in two contemporary Black women's novels.