Transforming scriptures : African American women writers and the Bible /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bassard, Katherine Clay, 1959-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2010.
Subjects:	Bible > In literature. African American women in literature. African American women > Religion. American literature > Women authors > History and criticism. American literature > African American authors > History and criticism. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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.