Prophesying daughters Black women preachers and the Word, 1823-1913 /

Main Author: Haywood, Chanta M., 1968-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2003.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10048220
Table of Contents:
  • The prophesying daughters : biographical and historical background
  • The act of prophesying : nineteenth-century Black women preachers and Black literary history
  • Prophetic change : Jarena Lee's and Julia Foote's uses of conversion rhetoric in the context of reader distrust
  • Prophetic journeying : the trope of travel in Black women preachers' narratives
  • Prophetic reading : Black women preachers and biblical interpretation
  • Prophetic works : prophesying daughters and social activism
  • the case of Frances Joseph Gaudet
  • Can I get a witness? : the implications of prophesying for African American literary studies.