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Preacher woman sings the blues : the autobiographies of nineteenth-century African American evangelists
- Title
- Preacher woman sings the blues : the autobiographies of nineteenth-century African American evangelists / Richard J. Douglass-Chin.
- Author
- Douglass-Chin, Richard J.
- Publication
- Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2001.
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Details
- Description
- ix, 228 p.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-219) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 01-988
- ISBN
- 0826213111 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 00066596
- OCLC
- 45487319
- Author
- Douglass-Chin, Richard J.
- Title
- Preacher woman sings the blues : the autobiographies of nineteenth-century African American evangelists / Richard J. Douglass-Chin.
- Imprint
- Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2001.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-219) and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 01-988