Prophesying daughters : Black women preachers and the Word, 1823-1913 / Chanta M. Haywood
- Author
- Haywood, Chanta M., 1968-
- Published
- Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2003]
- Copyright Date
- ©2003
- Physical Description
- xiii, 144 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- 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.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 0826214673 (alk. paper)
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-137) and index.
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