Transforming scriptures : African American women writers and the Bible / Katherine Clay Bassard.
2010
810.93822082 B317t 2010
Available at 2nd (Main) Floor
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Title
Transforming scriptures : African American women writers and the Bible / Katherine Clay Bassard.
ISBN
9780820330907 (hardcover)
0820330906
0820330906
Imprint
Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2010.
Language
English
Description
viii, 166 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
810.93822082 B317t 2010
System Control No.
(OCoLC)318869617
(OCoLC)318869617
(OCoLC)318869617
Summary
Publisher description: "Transforming Scriptures is the first sustained treatment of African American women writers' intellectual, even theological, engagements with the[Bible]. Katherine Clay Bassard looks at poetry, novels, speeches, sermons, and prayers by Maria W. Stewart, Frances Harper, Hannah Crafts, Harriet E. Wilson, Harriet Jacobs, Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, and Sherley Anne Williams and discusses how such texts respond as a collective 'literary witness' to the use of the Bible for purposes of social domination. Black women's historic encounters with the Bible were, indeed, transformational; in the process of 'turning cursing into blessing' these women were both shaped and reshaped by the scriptures they appropriated for their own self-representation."
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [143]-152) and indexes.
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction: The BIble and African American women writers: a literary witness
Part 1. Troubling hermeneutics. Talking mules and troubled hermeneutics: Black women's biblical self-disclosures ; Private interpretations: the Bible defense of slavery and nineteenth-century racial hermeneutics
Part 2. Transforming scriptures. 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
Appendix.
Part 1. Troubling hermeneutics. Talking mules and troubled hermeneutics: Black women's biblical self-disclosures ; Private interpretations: the Bible defense of slavery and nineteenth-century racial hermeneutics
Part 2. Transforming scriptures. 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
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