Transforming scriptures African American women writers and the Bible /

Main Author: Bassard, Katherine Clay, 1959-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2010.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10386252
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.