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Colored women sittin' on high : womanist sermonic practice in literature and music / Melanie R. Hill.

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Book
Author/Creator:
Hill, Melanie R., author.
Contributor:
EBSCOhost
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Womanist theology.
African American women clergy.
Sermons, American--African American authors--History and criticism.
Sermons, American.
Sermons in literature.
African American women in literature.
American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
American literature.
African Americans--Music--History and criticism.
African Americans.
Sermons--History and criticism.
Sermons.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xxv, 292 pages) : illustrations.
Other Title:
Womanist sermonic practice in literature and music
Colored women sitting on high
Place of Publication:
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2025]
Contents:
When the Preachers Dance / by Rev. Dr. Claudette Anderson Copeland
Left-Handed Sermons in a Right-Handed World: Pauli Murray, Quadruple-Consciousness, and the Art of the Sermon in African American Literature
"A Womanist Vibe with a Blues Sensibility": Disrupting Heaven Through Sermon and Song in Their Eyes Were Watching God
"Armed with the Word and Shaped by the Blues": Toward a Womanist Hermeneutic of Regeneration in The Amen Corner and Just Above My Head
Tongues on Fire: Black Women and the Making of Sermonic Space
We, Too, Preach Freedom: A Symphony of Sermonic Sound
"Sound Falls 'Round Me Like Rain": Toward a Womanist Sermonic Aesthetic in the Sermon-Songs of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Aretha Franklin, Shirley Caesar, Jill Scott, Ursula Rucker, and Ms. Lauryn Hill
Coda. When the Women Preach / by Melanie R. Hill ; Who Are We? / by Cynthia L. Hale.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.
Other Format:
Online version: Hill, Melanie R. Colored women sittin' on high.
ISBN:
9781469685113 (electronic bk.)
1469685116 (electronic bk.)
Publisher Number:
90102224645
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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