Preacher woman sings the blues : the autobiographies of nineteenth-century African American evangelists / Richard J. Douglass-Chin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Douglass-Chin, Richard J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American evangelists--Biography.

African American evangelists.

African American women--Biography.

African American women.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

ix, 228 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2001]

Contents:

1 The Cruelty of Men Whose: Faces Were Like the Moon 19

2 Jarena Lee and Zilpha Elaw: The Beginnings of African American Women's Christian Autobiography 32

3 Sojourner Truth and the Embodiment of the Blues-Bad-Preacher-Woman Text 58

4 Rebecca Cox Jackson and the Black Vernacular Text 94

5 The Politics of Conversion: Julia Foote and the Sermonic Text 120

6 Smith, Elizabeth, Broughton: The Daughters' Departure 140

7 Zora Neale Hurston: The Daughter's Return 166

8 The Blues Bad Preacher Women: (Per)forming of Self in the Novels of Contemporary African American Women 178

Conclusion: Bone by Bone 206.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-219) and index.

ISBN:

0826213111

OCLC:

45487319